maize
Species of grass cultivated as a food crop
Also known as corn plant · maize plant · corn · Zea mays
- Scientific name
- Zea mays
1
- Zea mays
- Rank
- Parent taxon
- Conservation status
- least concern
1
Sources- 1.Stated in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2Retrieved 2023-01-03
- least concern
- Taxon range
- Beijing
- , People's Republic of China
- , Fujian
- +5 more
Overview
All data
316 statements · 38% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Taxon common name
- India-corn
1
- corn,
1
Sources- 1.Stated in United States Department of Agriculture Plants DatabaseRetrieved 2016-06-07
- Aburoo
- maíz
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Diccionariu de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturianadiccionariu.alladixital.org/index.php?cod=31557Retrieved 2023-06-12
- Gugarutz
- Mais
- Tyrk
- Царевица
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- Kaba
- Blat de moro
- Dacsa
- Panís
- kukuřice
- Majs
- Kukuruz subject lexeme: L852552
- Mais subject lexeme: L594346
- Bli
- Καλαμπόκι
- Indian Corn
- maize subject lexeme: L24317
- Teosinte
- Maizo
- Coronta o Panocha
- Elote o Choclo
- Maiz
- Olote
- Mais
- ذرت
- Maissi
- Maïs
- Meis
- תירס
- मक्का
- Kukorica
- jagung
- Maizo
- Maís
- Mais
- トウモロコシ
- zumri
- Jagung
- Parastā kukurūza
- Jagung
- Maïs
1
- Mais
- ਮੱਕੀ
- Kukurydza
- abati
- auati
- avati
- Milho
- Кукуруза
- Kukurica siata
- koruza
1
- Кукуруз
- Majs
- சோளம்
- ข้าวโพด
- Mısır
- ظات حعشلعق قوناق
- India-corn
- This taxon is source of
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- Awards
- Vegetable of the year(2021–2022)
1
Sources- 1.nutzpflanzenvielfalt.de/gem%C3%BCse-des-jahres-202122-maisRetrieved 2020-12-04
- Vegetable of the year(2021–2022)
- Carbon footprint
- 0.7 kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilogram
- Has use
- cereal
1
- fodder
1
- medicinal plant
3
Sources- 1.Stated in A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China
- 2.“The medicinal plants of Myanmar”gbif.org/dataset/93725bf2-6ada-47f9-bd5e-0e679e3d245eRetrieved 2025-10-30
- 3.“Gabon medicinal plants”gbif.org/dataset/31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4Retrieved 2025-10-30
- vegetable
1
- building material
1
- fiber
1
- paste
- cereal
- Water footprint
- 1,222 cubic metre per ton
- 1,314 cubic metre per ton
- 700 cubic metre per ton
- Short name
- Z. mays
On other databases
153 identifiers linking maize across the web's reference databases
- A Dictionary of Genetics entry ID3901
- AccessScience ID162600
- African Plant Database ID52296
- Alabama Plant Atlas ID5097
- Amazon.com browse node6465013011
- APNI ID81854
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300375398
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294923438
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/6660
- Baidu Tieba name玉米
- Bashenc.online ID87650
- BBC Things IDc5c1e8c1-aeac-4981-b10e-aa3b2cd5b775
- BHL name IDzea_mays
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID119468261
- BioLib taxon ID42737
- Biology Online Biology Dictionary entrycorn
- Biota of New Zealand ID8d47da9c-df11-48ce-890c-0646d1bdbff6
- BNCF Thesaurus ID24363
- BOLD Systems taxon ID361557
- Burke Herbarium Image Collection IDZea mays
- Calflora ID9428
- CalPhotos taxon IDZea+mays
- Catalogue of Life ID5CXX5
- Concepticon concept set ID506
- Czech NDOP taxon ID40699
- Dewey Decimal Classification584.92
- Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID1749
- Dimensions.guide IDcorn
- Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID189988
- Dyntaxa ID222726
- EASIN IDR16304
- EBiodiversity ID8259
- Ecocrop ID2175
- EcuRed articleZea_mays
- Edition humboldt digital Flora IDZea mays
- EHLFL IDMais_(Türken,_Welschkorn)
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID153126
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplant/corn-plant
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4c1pmY
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)526151
- Encyclopedia of Life ID1115259
- EPPO CodeZEAMX
- EUNIS ID for species193844
- EuroVoc ID1744
- Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List IDMX.40666
- Flora Croatica Database taxon ID27244
- Flora of China ID200026507
- Flora of North America taxon ID200026507
- Flora of Wisconsin ID5458
- FloraCatalana IDVTax3826
- FloraVeg.EU taxon IDZea mays
- FloraWeb ID11313
- Flowers of India IDMaize
- Freebase ID/m/053wn
- GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)5290052
- GND ID4037135-9
- Go Botany taxon IDspecies/zea/mays
- Google Knowledge Graph ID/g/1226lvn2
- Google Product Taxonomy ID6609
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDblat-de-moro
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0223227
- GrassBase IDimp10873
- Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID8347
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDmais
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDkukuruza-8a3218
- Harper's tagcorn
- HDS ID027664
- Idaho Species ID53705
- Illinois Plants ID2933
- INaturalist taxon ID48448
- India Biodiversity Portal species ID231529
- Indian Medicinal Plants Database IDf3476338732e6aaa3552b0e693c87cf5
- Indiana Plant Atlas ID320
- Info Flora IDzea-mays
- Iowa State University Library Vocabularies IDisut086
- IPNI plant ID426810-1
- IRMNG ID10207796
- ITIS TSN42269
- IUCN taxon ID77726273
- J9U entity ID987007565382505171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)corn
- KBpedia IDCornPlant
- Korean National Species list ID120000065142
- KPU Plant Database IDzema
- Krugosvet article (archived)biologiya/kukuruza
- Lex IDmajs
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85032625
- Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID4167
- Maryland Plant Atlas ID4167
- MeSH descriptor IDD003313