Shrub to 30 cm or so high with creeping rhizomes. Leaves to 5 cm long, linear-oblong, waxy blue below. Flowers in pink clusters; spring to summer. Fruit a long-stalked capsule.
N America, Eurasia
Source: (1997). Ericaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.