Leucopogon virgatus is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of 35–60 cm (14–24 in) high and has softly-hairy, redish brown branchlets.

The flowers are erect, arranged in groups of four to seven in spikes 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long on the ends of branchlets and in upper leaf axils.

[2][3][4][5] This species was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière who gave it the name Styphelia virgata in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.

[6][7] In 1810, Robert Brown changed the name to Leucopogon virgatus in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

virgatus grows in heath, woodland and forest on the coast and ranges up to an altitude of 600 m (2,000 ft) in south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and is widespread throughout Victoria, south-eastern South Australia and Tasmania.