Plants herbs, spreading mats, 1–3 dm tall, 3–10 dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2 dm long, tomentose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about midlength; leaves in rather loose rosettes, the blades broadly elliptic, (1) 1.5–4 cm long, (0.5) 0.8–1.8 (2) cm wide, densely white-tomentose to lanate abaxially, white-tomentose and greenish, rarely some floccose or even glabrous and green adaxially, the margins plane; inflorescences compound-umbellate, 3–10 (12) cm long, the branches tomentose, without a whorl of bracts about midlength; involucral tubes (3) 3.5–5 mm long, the lobes (3) 4–6 mm long; flowers 4–7 mm long, the perianth bright yellow.

Flowering Jul-Sep. Sandy to gravelly flats, oak and conifer woodlands; 800–900 m; Scott Valley area of Siskiyou Co., California.

All the pictures of Eriogonum umbellatum var. lautum have been taken on July 22nd 2014, along Kidder Creek road in the Scott Valley area of Siskiyou County, California.

Aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2 dm long, tomentose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about mid-length.

Aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2 dm long, tomentose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about mid-length.

Aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2 dm long, tomentose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about mid-length.