Zizania L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science

Native to:

Alabama, Alberta, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, British Columbia, California, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hainan, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Introduced into:

Baltic States, Belarus, Borneo, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Hawaii, Ireland, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Malaya, New Zealand North, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Vietnam

Heterotypic Synonyms

• Ceratochaete Lunell in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 214 (1915)
• Elymus Mitch. in Diss. Bot. Zool.: 32 (1769), nom. illeg.
• Fartis Adans. in Fam. Pl. 2: 37 (1763)
• Hydropyrum Link in Hort. Berol. 1: 252 (1827)
• Melinum Link in Handbuch 1: 96 (1829), nom. illeg.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

• • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
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• • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0