Perennials, 20-60 cm, colonial and cespitose, short-stipitate-glandular; rhizomes woody, elongate and creeping, or short, erect, branched. Stems 1-4+, erect, sometimes branched proximally, straight glabrescent to thinly scabridulous proximally, stipitate-glandular distally, densely so in arrays. Leaves cauline, proximal smaller and withering by flowering, yellowish green, paler abaxially, firm; sessile; blades lanceolate (sometimes widely) or lanceolate-oblong to oblong or oblanceolate, 20-110 × 6-30 mm, bases ± clasping, rounded, main veins ± marked, margins entire, slightly indurate, sparsely to densely scabridulous, apices acute to obtuse, mucronate, faces glabrous; distal (arrays) lanceolate, 8-60 × 2-13 mm. Heads 2-20+ in ± open, corymbiform arrays with ascending branches. Peduncles densely stipitate-glandular; bracts 0-2, sometimes directly subtending heads, foliaceous or ± grading into phyllaries (bases scarious), margins glandular-ciliate, faces densely stipitate-glandular. Involucres campanulate, 8.5-11 mm. Phyllaries (27-31) in 3-4 series, keeled or rounded, ± spatulate to oblong-obovate or oblong (outer) to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate (inner), unequal, foliaceous (outermost) to membranous, green zones in distal ¹ / 2 - ⁶ / 7 (outer) to ca. ¹ / 10 or reduced to midnerve tips (inner), margins not (outer) or narrowly scarious, hyaline, sometimes purplish distally (inner), erose, glandular-ciliate, apices reflexed to squarrose, acute to acuminate, sometimes apiculate (innermost), abaxial faces ± stipitate-glandular (more densely so on green parts), adaxial stipitate-glandular (on green parts). Ray florets 13-21; laminae white (to pink), 15-28 × 1.6-2.5 mm. Disc florets 26-43; corollas yellow turning reddish purple, barely or not ampliate, 6.7-10.1 mm, tubes (2.2-3.6 mm) shorter than funnelform throats (3.8-5.4 mm), lobes erect to slightly spreading, lanceolate, 0.8-1.1 mm. Cypselae tan to brown or reddish brown, fusiform, ± compressed, 3.5-5.5 mm, ribs 9-10 (stramineous to tan), ± strigillose; pappi of (ca. 60) yellowish bristles 6.5-9.5 mm. 2n = 18. Flowering summer-early fall. Open, rocky slopes from foothills to mid elevations in mountains, pinyon-juniper, aspen, limber pine and spruce-fir communities; 1800-3050 m; Utah. Herrickia wasatchensis is known only from the Wasatch Mountains, where it is considered vulnerable.