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Zizania aquatica
Wild-rice

Wild-rice is a large emersed grass that grows in the water of marshes, lakes, and rivers. It's yellow to reddish grains are edible.

Wild-rice grows to ten feet tall. It's stems are thick and spongy. It's leaves are flat and strap-like, and up to two inches wide. The leaf is typically three to four feet long. The leaf surfaces are smooth but have rough margins. Wild-rice's large inflorescence grows at the top of the stem. It is up to two feet long and a foot across. It is a wide-open panicle with many spreading branches and branchlets. The lower branches have many drooping branchlets. The upper branches of the inflorescence point stiffly upwards.

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