Wild rice is a single ingredient, consisting of the grains harvested from any of the four species of wild rice (Zizania palustris, Zizania aquatica, Zizania texana, or Zizania latifolia). When ...

Reeds can grow from three to 10 feet tall. There are two main species that grow in this area: Eastern or annual wild rice (Zizania aquatica) and northern wild rice (Zizania palustris). The latter ...

or Northern wild rice, and Zizania aquatica, or wild rice. While it is now paddy farmed in parts of California and Minnesota, the truly wild rice or “lake rice” is still available. This is ...

It isn't rice at all, of course, but the seed of a tall, annual aquatic grass, Zizania palustris (sometimes still called by the earlier name Zizania aquatica). The wild grain continues to be ...

Wild rice (Zizania aquatica) is also called water rice, Indian rice and water oats. Fall brings fond memories of gathering wild rice in Minnesota. The American Indian method of harvesting this ...

Wild rice, Zizania aquatica, is a native grass species, and of course, the grass family (Poaceae) is generally regarded as the most economically important plant group on Earth, at least from the ...

George Morrow tugs on his baseball cap rimmed with multicolored Indian beads and embroidery that spells ”Native American Indian.” He steps onto the marshy lake shore and fingers the head of a ...

Julia Place, a graduate student at Central Michigan University studying biology, is researching the southern wild rice species, Zizania aquatica, in western Michigan. Wild rice is a state ...

Wild rice is the common name of two closely related species (Zizania aquatica and Z. palustris). But despite their common name, they are not closely related to domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) at all.

Botanically, wild rice (Zizania aquatica) is not rice (Oryza sativa), although both are aquatic grasses. Wild rice still grows along shallow lakes and rivers, mostly in the northern Great Lakes ...