It’s not a grass, and it’s not a sage. It’s a “sedge."
This week’s column is devoted to a certain plant family, and especially a certain genus within the family. This would be the family named “Cyperaceae,” an enormous group, in terms of number of species, all of which are called “sedges” of one sort or another.
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