Shrub to nearly 1 m tall with red-margined leaves and abundant open sprays of flowers.

Originated in the nursery of Mr Martin, Fairfield, near Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. Probably a hybrid, Heliohebe hulkeana × H. lavaudiana. Now treated as Heliohebe × fairfieldii (Hook. f.) Garn.-Jones. [H. 'Fairfieldensis']