It has glabrous, leathery, narrow oblong to broadly egg-shaped leaves and pendulous, cylindrical, pink to red or orange flowers arranged singly on short side branches.

Correa pulchella is a prostrate to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has smooth branchlets.

The flowers are arranged singly on short side branches on a thin, pendulous pedicel 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long.

[2][3][4][5] Correa pulchella was first formally described in 1827 by Robert Sweet in his book Flora Australasica from an unpublished description by John Bain Mackay.

The seeds had been collected on Kangaroo Island by William Baxter who had been sent to Australia by the plant collector Francis Henchman and grown by Mackay in his Clapton Nursery.