Hovea pungens, commonly known as devil's pins,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia.

Hovea pungens is an upright shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 1.8 metres (1 to 6 ft), and single stemmed or multi-branched.

The purple pea-shaped flowers are borne singly or in a small grouping of two or three on a pedicel 0.3–0.9 cm (0.12–0.35 in) long that are thickly covered in hairs.

[2][3][4] Hovea pungens was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham and the description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.

[7] Devil's pins grows in shallow soils among granite, sandy and clay loams, outcrops, coastal limestone on flats, woodland, low heath and undulating sandplains.