Zea mays L.

Zea mays L.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Zea mays L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 971 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Zea mays

Common names

U.S. name: Corn

English name: Balsas teosinte

English name: Central Plateau teosinte

Spanish name: maíz silvestre

French name: téosinte

Italian name: Mais

German name: Teosinte

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Zea mays L. ssp. everta (Sturtev.) Zhuk.
2) Zea mays L. ssp. mays
3) Zea mays L. ssp. mexicana (Schrad.) Iltis
4) Zea mays L. ssp. parviglumis Iltis & Doebley
5) Zea mays L. ssp. parviglumis Iltis & Doebley var. huehuetenangensis Iltis & Doebley
6) Zea mays L. var. japonica (Van Houtte) Alph. Wood
7) Zea mays L. var. tunicata LarraÂ±aga ex A. St.-Hil.,

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Zea
Species:

Page counter: 3638 ( AVG: 222.38 / 291.405 )

Gallery:

Zea mays
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Campagna tra Montefalco e Trevi, PG, Umbria, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Zea mays
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Zea mays
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Zea mays
Female flowers at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Zea mays
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Orto Botanico. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Zea mays
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto botanico dell'Università di Padova, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Zea mays
Crop at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Zea mays

Zea mays
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Zea mays
Ears at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Zea mays

Zea mays
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Zea mays
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Capaccio, località Paestum, nei pressi delle mura dell'antica città, SA, Campania, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Zea mays

Zea mays
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Zea mays
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Zea mays
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image

Zea mays
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Zea mays

Zea mays
Male flowers and leaves at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Zea mays
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sauris, frazioni di Lateis, UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Zea mays
Male flowers at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Zea mays

Zea mays
Male flowers at Olinda, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), USA+ (PR, VI), CAN (ON, QC)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Zea mays L. ssp. everta (Sturtev.) Zhuk. [176]
2) Zea mays L. var. tunicata LarraÂ±aga ex A. St.-Hil., [96]
3) Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze [335]
4) Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Makino [923]
5) Zenobia pulverulenta (Bartram ex Willd.) Pollard [390]
6) Zephyranthes citrina Baker [1172]
7) Zephyranthes smallii (Alexander) Traub [150]
8) Zigadenus elegans Pursh [406]
9) Zigadenus muscitoxicus (Walter) Regel [227]
10) Zinnia multiflora L. [148]

29-Apr-2024 - Week-18