It is a shrub with mostly pinnate leaves, with white to pale pink four-petalled flowers in leaf axils.

Cyanothamnus anemonifolius is an erect shrub that grows to a height of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) with pimply glands on its branches.

[2][3][4][5] This species was first formally described in 1825 by Allan Cunningham and given the name Boronia anemonifolia in the book Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales.

[6][7] In a 2013 paper in the journal Taxon, Marco Duretto and others changed the name to Cyanothamnus anemonifolus on the basis of cladistic analysis.

[8] The specific epithet (anemoniifolius) is a reference to the similarity of the leaves of this species to those in the genus Anemone.