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.

Wild Rice Media

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  A 19th century illustration of Native Americans harvesting wild rice

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  Ojibwa pouch for holding wild rice, cedar bark, American Museum of Natural History

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  Wild rice stems before and after peeling

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  Cooked wild rice. Photo taken by ElinorD and released as GFDL.

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  Vintage photo entitled, "Paul Buffalo and wife parching wild rice at their camp" - 1934

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
• 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.