What is Wild rice?
{{taxobox |name = Wild Rice |image = WildRice23.jpg |regnum = [[Plantae]] |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Monocots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Commelinids]] |ordo = [[Poales]] |familia = [[Poaceae]] |genus = '''''Zizania''''' |genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *'''''Zizania aquatica''''' L. **''[[Zizania aquatica var. aquatica]]'' **''[[Zizania aquatica var. brevis]]'' [[Norman C. Fassett|Fassett]] *'''''Zizania latifolia''''' ([[August Grisebach|Griseb.]]) [[Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow|Turcz.]] ex [[Otto Stapf|Stapf]] *'''''Zizania palustris''''' L. **''[[Zizania palustris var. interior]]'' (Fassett) Dore **''[[Zizania palustris var. palustris]]'' *'''''Zizania texana''''' [[A. S. Hitchcock|Hitchc.]] |}} '''Wild rice''' (also called '''Canada rice''', '''Indian rice''', and '''water oats''') is four [[species]] of [[Poaceae|grasses]] forming the [[genus]] '''''Zizania''''', and the grain which can be harvested from them. The grain was [[history|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 [[Plant stem|stem]] is used as a [[vegetable]]. == Other websites == * [http://www.ricewild.com.au Australian wild rice; information about cultivated wild rice in Australia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331214825/http://ricewild.com.au/ |date=2020-03-31 }} * [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=41318 Zizania] in the [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]] * [http://www.saveourrice.org Save Our Rice Alliance; information on wild rice harvest, management and distribution across the Upper Great Lakes Region] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606062005/http://www.saveourrice.org/ |date=2010-06-06 }} * [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Zizania.html Multilingual taxonomic information from the University of Melbourne