General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Fruit
Pollinators: Wind

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Common names
  • Rice
  • Common Rice
  • Swamp Rice
  • Red Rice
  • Burgundy Rice Plant
  • Red Dragon
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Oryza sativa
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. amaura
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. atrobrunnea
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. melanoglumella
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. mulayana
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. mutica
  • Synonym: Oryza sativa var. rubriglumella

Photo Gallery
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2022-02-20
Rice (Oryza sativa) growing from store bought bagged brown rice.

photo credit: IRRI Images
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2017-08-12
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2017-08-12
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2020-03-20
Rice (Oryza sativa) seeds germination.
Location: Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany.
Date: April
credit: Diego Delso
Location: MOBOT -   St Louis
Date: 2013-02-26

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