Wild rice

Wild rice (also called Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) is four species of grasses forming the genus Zizania, and the grain which can be harvested from them. The grain was historically gathered and eaten in both North America and China. While it is now something of a delicacy in North America, the grain is no longer eaten in China, where the plant's stem is used as a vegetable.

Wild Rice
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Zizania L.
Species
Zizania aquatica L. Zizania aquatica var. aquatica Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett Zizania latifolia (Griseb.) Turcz. ex Stapf Zizania palustris L. Zizania palustris var. interior (Fassett) Dore Zizania palustris var. palustris Zizania texana Hitchc.

Other websites

• Australian wild rice; information about cultivated wild rice in Australia Archived 2020-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
• Zizania in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Save Our Rice Alliance; information on wild rice harvest, management and distribution across the Upper Great Lakes Region Archived 2010-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Multilingual taxonomic information from the University of Melbourne
• Asian Vegetables
• Zizania aquatica
• Jenks, Albert Ernest (1901). The wild rice gatherers of the Upper Lakes: a study in American primitive economics.