It is a small shrub, with narrow leaves and pink, mauve to white flowers.

Westringia eremicola is a slender shrub growing to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high.

The margins of the leaves are smooth, curved under, and both surfaces have more or less flattened, simple, upright hairs.

Flowering may occur at anytime throughout the year and the fruit is a dark brown, woody capsule up to 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long.

[2][3][4][5][6] Westringia eremicola was first formally described in 1834 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham and the description was published in Bentham's book Labiatarum Genera et Species.