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the grass that isn't grass and wants everyone to know it.
means A grass-like plant with solid, often triangular stems that typically grows in wet or marshy ground.
from From Old English 'secg,' the same word that also meant 'sword' — both the blade-like leaves of the plant and the weapon shared that name for their cutting edge. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to 'cutting,' and is possibly a distant cousin of Latin 'secare,' to cut (the source of words like 'section'). A botanists' rhyme captures the same edge: 'sedges have edges.'
shape ruleSedges have edges, triangular stems unlike round grasses
papyrus kinAncient Egyptian paper came from a sedge species
survivorThrives in bogs where most plants drown
global reachOver 5,500 species across every continent but Antarctica