It is a low-lying, straggling shrub with greyish-green branches, the end branchlets sharply-pointed, the leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales, orange flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy, flattened elliptic pods.

[3][4] Jacksonia quairading was first formally described in 2007 by Jennifer Anne Chappill in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Chappill and Carolyn F. Wilkins east of Quairading in 1991.

[3] This species of Jacksonia grows in shrubland on sandy soil or laterite and is only known from from near Quairading in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

[3][4] Jacksonia quairading is listed as is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

The main threats to the species are firebreak and track maintenance, recreational activities, inappropriate fire regimes and invasive weeds.