by Mary Free and Christa Watters, Extension Master Gardeners
To what does this rhyme refer: “Sedges have edges, rushes are round, and grasses are hollow, straight to the ground”?
In other plants, we would call them stems, but in the Cyperaceae (sedges), Juncaceae (rushes), Poaceae (grasses), and Typhaceae (cattails), they go by a different name. Click here to learn that name and more.
