Sierra Blanca ankle-aster, least-daisy

Chaetopappa elegans Soreng & Spellenberg, Syst. Bot. 9: 1. 1984

Plants 3–5(–9) cm (with relatively short caudex branches, cespitose; taprooted). Stems proximally herbaceous or slightly woody, eglandular. Leaves: proximal densely clustered, internodes not visible, reduced in size distally; mid and distal 5–17 mm, margins green, faces glabrous or sparsely puberulent, eglandular. Heads 1(–3). Involucres 4.5–6.5 mm. Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corollas 3.8–5 mm. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, faces sessile- to stipitate-glandular. 2n = 18.

Flowering Jun–Aug. Granite outcrops; of conservation concern; 2500 m; N.Mex.

Ionactis elegans is known from a single population system in Eagle Creek Canyon, Lincoln County.