Juncus subcaudatus Coville & S.F.Blake

Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 1.5--6 dm. Culms erect, 1--3 mm diam., smooth. Cataphylls 0--1, straw-colored, apex acute. Leaves: basal 1, cauline 1--3; auricles 0.5--1 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade terete, 4.5--15 cm ?x 1--2 mm. Inflorescences panicles or racemes of 3--35 heads, 2--16 cm, branches widely spreading (at least the proximalmost); primary bract erect; heads 2--10(--20)-flowered, obconic to nearly spheric, 3--9 mm diam. Flowers: tepals greenish, becoming straw-colored, lanceolate; outer tepals 1.8--3 mm, apex acuminate; inner tepals 2--3.2 mm, apex acuminate; stamens 3, anthers 1/3 filament length. Capsules exserted, straw-colored, imperfectly 3-locular, ovoid to prismatic, 3--3.8 mm, apex acute proximal to beak, valves separating at dehiscence. Seeds ellipsoid, 0.7--1.2 mm, tailed; body covered with whitish translucent veil.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.