This week's mystery plant's as common as dirt

BY JOHN NELSON Curator, USC Herbarium
Posted 8/8/10

You may remember from your first botany class that "sedges have edges," a good way to distinguish them from grasses and rushes. Specifically, sedges have stems that are generally triangular in cross section, so that when you hold one, you can feel …

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