It is an attractive shrub with distinctive foliage and beautiful large pink, red, or deep purple scented flowers.

The leaves are pale green in colour, more or less overlap, distinctly cupped around the stem, flowers and fruit.

[3][4][5][6][7] Hakea cucullata was first described by Robert Brown in 1830 from a specimen collected by William Baxter in 1824 and the description was published in Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.

[9] Hood-leaved hakea is found in the Stirling Range, south-western Western Australia, east to the Whoogarup Range[3] in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions where it grows in sandy mallee heath and occasionally in gravelly lateritic soils.

[4][5][10] Hakea cucullata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.