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§1 Plant
Zizania palustris L.
vernacular northern 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
· 173 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 173 counties across 16 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Brown 27015
- Carlton 27017
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kanabec 27065
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Le Sueur 27079
- Mahnomen 27087
- Meeker 27093
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pennington 27113
- Pine 27115
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Red Lake 27125
- Rice 27131
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Swift 27151
- Wabasha 27157
- Wadena 27159
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Clinton 36019
- Cortland 36023
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Ontario 36069
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Saratoga 36091
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
North Dakota view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Buffalo 55011
- Burnett 55013
- Chippewa 55017
- Dane 55025
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Florence 55037
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Forest 55041
- Grant 55043
- Green Lake 55047
- Jackson 55053
- Jefferson 55055
- La Crosse 55063
- Lincoln 55069
- Marathon 55073
- Marquette 55077
- Menominee 55078
- Milwaukee 55079
- Oconto 55083
- Ozaukee 55089
- Pepin 55091
- Pierce 55093
- Polk 55095
- Price 55099
- Rock 55105
- Rusk 55107
- Sawyer 55113
- Shawano 55115
- Sheboygan 55117
- Taylor 55119
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vilas 55125
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZIPA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703230 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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