Epacris purpurascens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales.

It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped or heart-shaped, sharply-pointed leaves and white or pink, tube-shaped flowers.

[2][3][4] Epacris purpurascens was first formally described in 1809 by John Sims in Curtis's Botanical Magazine from an unpublished description by Joseph Banks.

The names of the following varieties are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: This epacris grows in forest and scrub near creeks and swamps in eastern New South Wales.

purpurascens grows on coastal plateaus in the Sydney and Gosford districts.