It is an erect, spreading or prostrate shrub with hairy branchlets, linear leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils on the ends of shoots, with fifteen to twenty-five stamens in bundles around the four or five carpels.

Hibbertia huegelii is an erect, spreading or prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) and has hairy branchlets covered with white to pale grey hairs.

The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on the ends of branchlets and are sessile with a narrow egg-shaped bract 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long at the base of the sepals.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel and given the name Candollea huegelii.

[6] Hibbertia huegelii grows in woodland, mostly on the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions south-western Western Australia.