This species has a complex taxonomic history,[1] and its specific epithet acknowledges the original recognition of the taxon by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

Its underground tuber is white and generally found 2 – 5 cm under the soil surface.

Its aerial parts range from 5 – 10 cm in height, normally yellow-green to distinctly yellow in colour.

The aerial stem is normally branched multiple times from the base of the plant.

Drosera hookeri is typically a plant of winter-wet, summer-dry grasslands and grassy woodlands.