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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 rule
- Sedges have edges, triangular stems unlike round grasses
- papyrus kin
- Ancient Egyptian paper came from a sedge species
- survivor
- Thrives in bogs where most plants drown
- global reach
- Over 5,500 species across every continent but Antarctica
carex acuta — slender sedge species found across temperate europe and asia, over 2,000 carex species exist
cyperus papyrus — papyrus sedge used by ancient egyptians to make paper, grows along the nile river
carex elata bowles golden — ornamental sedge with golden foliage, commonly planted in gardens across europe and north america