It is a compact or straggling, spreading shrub with pointed egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and white or pink flowers.

The flowers are arranged in almost spherical heads 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) in diameter and have egg-shaped bracts and flatted bracteoles on their stalks.

[2][3] Andersonia involucrata was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected in the Sussex district in 1839.

[6] This species of Andersonia grows in sandy soils in winter-wet flats and swamps, or on breakaways and hillsides between Perth and Busselton in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

[2][3] Andersonia involucrata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.