The Florida wolf spider is a dusky yellowish brown spider with a linear cream marking running from the front of its cephalothorax to its abdomen.

[1] First described in 1942, H. miami shares similar physiological characteristics with Hogna ammophilia and Hogna ericeticola, although females of this species possess minor differences in epigynal positioning.

Hogna miami is a terrestrial burrower, forming small, tubular burrows in the earth by digging with its front pairs of legs and tamping the earth with the pressure of its body.

[3] Its brown, speckled coloration is complimentary to its life lived in burrows and on the ground.

It prefers the humid, subtropical climates that associated with its native range.