Subshrubs, 30-150 cm. Stems ± erect. Leaves (proximal usually alternate, sometimes opposite): blades linear, lanceolate, or ovate, 3-7 cm, usually 1-2-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire or toothed, revolute, abaxial faces white-woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves usually similar). Heads 40-80+ per array. Peduncles mostly 0-1(-1.5) cm. Involucres campanulate, 2-3+ mm diam. Phyllaries 8-11, distinct (oblong, carinate, apices obtuse or acute). Ray florets 0 or 6-9; laminae yellow, 3-5 (× 2-3) mm. Disc florets 30-40; corollas 4 mm. Cypselae 3-4 mm; pappi of 8-12 oblong or oblanceolate scales ca. 1 mm. 2n = 30.

Flowering Apr-Sep. Coastal dunes and bluffs; 0-100 m; Calif., Oreg.

Morphologically, Eriophyllum staechadifolium appears to connect E. confertiflorum var. confertiflorum and E. (Constancea) nevinii.