Calytrix strigosa

Calytrix strigosa is a semi-prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) and has branchlets sometimes covered with soft hairs. Its leaves are linear, elliptic, lance-shaped or round, 1–7 mm (0.039–0.276 in) long and 0.5–2.2 mm (0.020–0.087 in) wide on a petiole 0.2–1 mm (0.0079–0.0394 in) long. There are stipules up to 0.4 mm (0.016 in) long at the base of the leaves. The flowers are borne on a funnel-shaped peduncle 3–11 mm (0.12–0.43 in) long with elliptic to egg-shaped lobes with the narrower end towards the base, 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long. The floral tube is spindle-shaped, 4.5–14 mm (0.18–0.55 in) long and has five ribs. The sepals are fused at the base for up to 0.2 mm (0.0079 in), with elliptic to round lobes 1.0–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide, with an awn up to 11 mm (0.43 in) long. The petals are pale pink, mauve to purple with a yellow base or whitish base, or pale yellow throughout, elliptic to egg-shaped, 4–11 mm (0.16–0.43 in) long and 1.8–4 mm (0.071–0.157 in) wide, and there are about 30 to 70 stamens in two or three rows. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from August to November.

This species of Calytrix is found on sand dunes and sand plains in the south-west of Western Australia from Shark Bay to near Perth and inland to a line between Wiluna and the Fraser Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo, where it grows in heath on sand and limestone, laterite and clay soils.