Its habit, the shape of its floral spikes, and the color of its flowers evoke a thyme from the praecox group or a garden hybrid.
A sub-shrub of the Lamiaceae family, it forms a low, dense, and spreading tuft, 10 to 15 cm in height when in bloom, with a well-marked woody base and erect or slightly ascending flowering stems. This semi-erect habit at the time of flowering clearly distinguishes it from the strictly prostrate forms of the serpyllum group. The foliage is small, medium green to dark green, borne on thin stems with fairly short internodes.
The flowers are a very pale lilac pink, almost light lavender, gathered in elongated and well-filled spikes that give the plant a slender and light appearance at the time of flowering. The still-closed buds have a slightly more pronounced hue than the open flowers. In cultivation, flowering is observed in June-July.
It requires well-drained soil, in full light, and naturally integrates between the stones of a structured rockery, where its rounded tuft habit and light spikes produce an airy and discreet overall effect.