Xanthosia huegelii is a weak, low-lying to erect or ascending perennial herb or subshrub in the family Apiaceae and is endemic to southern Australia.

Xanthosia huegelii is a weak, low-lying to erect or ascending perennial herb or subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to 15 cm (5.9 in) and has shaggy-hairy branches.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham, who gave it the name Leucolaena huegelii in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.

[4][5] In 1841, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel transferred the species to Xanthosia as X. huegelii in his Nomenclator Botanicus.

In Victoria it grows mainly in heath and woodland[3] and in Western Australia, in winter-wet areas, sandplains and outcrops in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.