Perennials, 10-40 cm (caudices woody or rhizomes short-creeping; herbage sparsely to moderately glandular-hairy, not glaucous). Stems ascending to erect, sparsely to moderately glandular-hairy. Leaves: mid and distal blades lance-ovate to elliptic, 1.5-3 cm × 4-10 mm. Heads usually 2-5 in racemiform to corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly. Peduncles glandular. Involucres turbinate, 6-8 mm. Phyllaries in 2-4 series (whitish), lanceolate to ovate (unequal), apices acute, abaxial face glabrous or glandular-hairy. Rays (5-)8-13, white (often pinkish in bud). Cypselae pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series smooth or ± barbellate . 2n = 18.

Flowering Jul-Aug. Open rocky slopes and exposed cliffs; 1200-1900 m; Oreg.

Eucephalus gormanii is known only from the central Cascade Mountains. It is closely related to E. paucicapitatus.