Wild Rice in Minnesota

摘要: Wild rice (Zizania aquatica) is an aquatic grass of the Tribe Zizanieae which produces grain valued as food for waterfowl and a table delicacy mankind. It native plant not ancestor cultivated commerce. grows throughout eastern half United States adjoining portions Canada (Hitchcock, 1935), butis more abundant in central northern Minnesota than other parts its range. wild stands are autumn feeding grounds on Mississippi flyway. Martin Uhler (1939) report that this formed 5.10 per cent stomachs many game ducks taken States, Morse (1941) found it made 50 some lakes autumn. has long been gathered by Indians at present harvested considerable amounts both whites.