Plants herbs, erect, 2–5 dm tall, tomentose, greenish-gray to gray; aerial flowering stems erect, (0.4) 0.8–1.5 dm long, tomentose; leaves basal, the petioles 2–8 cm long, tomentose, the blades suborbiculate, 1–3 cm long and wide, white-tomentose abaxially, subglabrous and greenish adaxially; inflorescences cymose, open, 10–40 cm long and wide, the branches tomentose, the bracts 1–5 (6) mm long, 1–2 mm wide; peduncles erect, straight, slender, 1–3.5 cm long, tomentose; involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets at least proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate, 2–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, tomentose, the teeth 5, erect, 0.6–0.9 mm long; flowers 1.5–2.5 (3) mm long, the perianth white, glabrous, the tepals monomorphic, elliptic to oblong-obovate, the stamens included, 0.7–1.2 mm long, the filaments usually pilose proximally; styles 0.1– 0.3 mm long; achenes brownish, trigonous, 1.6–2 (2.5) mm long; beak granular. 2n = 34.

All the pictures of Eriogonum eastwoodianum have been taken on June 4th 2016 in the Parkfield Grade area, Monterey county. 36°2’37” N 120°28’11” W.

Flowering May-Sep. Sandy shale outcrops and slopes, mixed grassland communities, oak and pine woodlands; (200) 500–1000 m; known only from two disjunct locations in the Silver Creek Canyon area of Fresno County, California, and the other on Parkfield Grade area in Monterey and San Luis Obispo cos.

Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets at least proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate, 2–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, tomentose, the teeth 5, erect, 0.6–0.9 mm long.

Leaves basal, the petioles 2–8 cm long, tomentose, the blades suborbiculate, 1–3 cm long and wide, white-tomentose abaxially, subglabrous and greenish adaxially.

Flowers 1.5–2.5 (3) mm long, the perianth white, glabrous, the tepals monomorphic, elliptic to oblong-obovate, the stamens included, 0.7–1.2 mm long, the filaments usually pilose proximally.

Leaves basal, the petioles 2–8 cm long, tomentose, the blades suborbiculate, 1–3 cm long and wide, white-tomentose abaxially, subglabrous and greenish adaxially.

Achenes brownish, trigonous, 1.6–2 (2.5) mm long; beak granular.