It is a small shrub with oval-shaped leaves and pinkish, mauve or purple flowers.

Westringia glabra is a small shrub to 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) high with pink, mauve or purple flowers that have darker purple spots in the throat.

[2][3] Westringia glabra was first formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[4][5] The specific epithet (glabra) is a Latin word meaning "hairless", "bald" or "smooth".

[6] Violet westringia grows on skeletal soils in gorges, rocky slopes and woodland in New South Wales and Victoria.