It blooms between October and February producing creamy white or pale yellowish flowers.

The fruit is a woody, hemispherical to shortened spherical capsule 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long and wide with the valves protruding.

[3][4][5][6][7] Eucalyptus yalatensis was first formally described in 1975 by Clifford Boomsma in the South Australian Naturalist from specimens collected by Bruce Jabez Copley (1933–1984) near Yalata in 1969.

It is found from Balladonia and Israelite Bay in the west to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, and disjunctly near Mannum.

[6] This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.