Taxon: Zizania aquatica L.

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

PRª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Zizania aquatica var. aquatica (no accessions)
• Zizania aquatica var. brevis (no accessions)

Common names:

• estuarine wild rice   (Source: Wild rice in Canada) – English   [Zizania aquatica var. brevis]
  
• estuarine zizania   (Source: Wild rice in Canada) – English   [Zizania aquatica var. brevis]
  
• southern wild rice   (Source: Wild rice in Canada) – English   [Zizania aquatica var. aquatica]
  
• southern zizania   (Source: Wild rice in Canada) – English   [Zizania aquatica var. aquatica]
  
• zizânia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [e.], Minnesota [s.e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia [s. & e.], Kentucky [w.], Louisiana [s.], Maryland, Mississippi [s.], North Carolina [e.], South Carolina, Virginia [e.]

References:

• Aiken, S. G. et al. 1988. Wild rice in Canada. 30.
• Dore, W. G. & J. McNeill. 1980. Grasses of Ontario. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Monograph 26.
• Duvall, M. R. 1987. A systematic evaluation of the genus Zizania (Poaceae). Unpublished dissertation (University Minnesota).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Terrell, E. E. & L. R. Batra. 1982. Zizania latifolia and Ustilago esculenta, a grass-fungus association. Econ. Bot. 36:279.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1997. Taxonomy of North American species of Zizania (Poaceae). Sida 17:535.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Zizania aquatica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Zizania aquatica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Zizania aquatica.

Synonyms:

• Zizania aquatica var. subbrevis B. Boivin [= Zizania aquatica var. aquatica]
  

Check other web resources for Zizania aquatica L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Florets and caryopsis: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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