The collective unfamiliarity with Texas wild rice does, however, draw attention to its precarious existence. In a river brimming with other aquatic vegetation, the rice plants are easy to overlook.

of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, and intern Colin Findley spent Tuesday morning planting several dozen Texas wild rice plants in the San Marcos River.

HOUSTON – Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year ... But without irrigation, many farmers will be able to plant only a fraction of the rice they usually grow ...

The first study of breeding habits of this endangered, aquatic grass (Zizania texana) found that the pollen of Texas wild-rice can only travel about 30 inches away from a parent plant. If pollen ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields. And that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with is the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice. That would ...

or aquatic plants like Texas wild rice. "Whether sunbathing at the banks, or tubing down the San Marcos River, it's important to keep our litter out of the river and parks," a statement from ...

Wild rice is really vulnerable in its early life stages, such as the floating leaf stage, when it's a plant that's leaf is resting on the top of the water level. When there's a lot of rain during ...

A northern Minnesota power plant that was the site of a massive ash-water spill last summer has for years legally pumped wastewater with even higher concentrations of sulfate than was detected in ...

Wild rice is an annual plant, meaning it completes its entire life cycle in one growing season and then dies. The seeds germinate in spring, then sprout to lie flat on the water like ribbons ...