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§1 Plant
Zizania aquatica L.
vernacular annual wildrice — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Zizania
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 300 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 32 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 95 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.4–7.4
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 9.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 11,340
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 300 counties across 27 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Berrien 26021
- Calhoun 26025
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clinton 26037
- Emmet 26047
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Iosco 26069
- Iron 26071
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Leelanau 26089
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Mecosta 26107
- Menominee 26109
- Monroe 26115
- Montcalm 26117
- Muskegon 26121
- Oakland 26125
- Ogemaw 26129
- Oscoda 26135
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- Roscommon 26143
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Shiawassee 26155
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Arlington 51013
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Gloucester 51073
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
Wisconsin view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Brown 55009
- Calumet 55015
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Douglas 55031
- Forest 55041
- Grant 55043
- Iron 55051
- Jefferson 55055
- La Crosse 55063
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Marquette 55077
- Menominee 55078
- Milwaukee 55079
- Oconto 55083
- Portage 55097
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- Shawano 55115
- Trempealeau 55121
- Walworth 55127
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZIAQ ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703228 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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