Spyridium parvifolium is a low, spreading shrub to about 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high with smaller branches thickly covered in soft, long, rusty coloured hairs.

The flowers are in small heads, whitish, woolly, and borne in leafy clusters in leaf axils at the end of branches.

[2][3] Spyridium parvifolium was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

[7] Spyridium parvifolium has a degree of frost and drought tolerance, and adapts well to most soils and positions with adequate drainage.

A prostrate form with the cultivar name 'Austraflora Nimbus', spreads to 1 metre across and is suited to coastal gardens, rockeries and containers.