It is a small, upright, perennial shrub with yellow flowers borne on a single stem and is endemic to Queensland, Australia.

Coronidium rupicola is a small, shrubby, erect perennial with a single stem and terminal yellow button flower-heads about 2 cm (0.79 in) in diameter.

The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, 5 cm (2.0 in) long, pale green, densely woolly underneath, upper surface smooth, margins rolled under and wavy.

[6][2] Wilson coined the genus name Coronidium from the Greek words korone (crown) and the diminutive -idion, a reference to a feature seen on the fruit after bristles have broken away from it.

[7] Yellow button is endemic to Queensland and grows on rocky coastlines, road verges, woodland and exposed ridges.