What's the real name of the grass that can leave paper cuts all over your legs? It's found by water in Minnesota and look like normal grass, but if you're in shorts, it will rip your legs up. I always thought it was called razor grass, but looking at Google, this is not it's name.

Common name: Rice Cutgrass, Scientific name: Leersia oryzoides. It is not a rice, but shares some characteristics with rice. There is another wetland plant that will shred your legs called Tearthumb or Polygonum sagittatum. It is viney, climbing over other vegetation and has stems with teeth like a saw.

Thank you! I was wondering what those vine ones were as well. 2 for 1 :)

Naturally someone named sedges might know.

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Name checks out.

Random disarticulated factlet: Much of the land in Carlos Avery and Crex Meadows was once owned by a St. Paul company that produced "grass" mat floor coverings. That company, the Crex Carpet Company, took its name from the chief raw component of those mats, Carex (sedges).

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Random disarticulated factlet: Much of the land in Carlos Avery and Crex Meadows was once owned by a St. Paul company that produced "grass" mat floor coverings. That company, the Crex Carpet Company, took its name from the chief raw component of those mats, Carex (sedges).

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LOL I love the random trivia, Steve! Always learn something new on this site!

Dang it, Now I will remember that piece of trivia and it will be taking up space in the limited capacity of my brain!!

You know I bet grass rugs would be popular today if they made them again

Deer like to make their beds in the sedges, around here...