Oryza sativa

Domestic rice

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Domestic rice is a naturalized perennial herb found in the Great Valley at elevations below 100 meters, typically growing in wet sites. Flowering from September to November, this plant produces spikelets with elliptic flowers 6 to 11 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 40 to 150 centimeters tall, it develops long, drooping branched inflorescences up to 50 centimeters long. Its leaves are long and narrow, measuring 15 to 35 centimeters in length and 3 to 11 millimeters wide, with smooth or slightly rough surfaces and prominent ligules 4 to 10 millimeters long.

Habitat: Wet sites

Bloom period: Sep-Nov

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: GV

California counties: Yolo, Orange, Kern, Butte, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Imperial, Sutter, Glenn, Yuba, Fresno, Sacramento, Tuolumne, Alameda, Los Angeles, Colusa, San Joaquin, Placer

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.