Zizaniopsis miliacea (Michx.) Döll & Asch.

Culms 1–4 m, blades to 1 m × 3 cm, with wide midvein, scabrous on the margins; panicle nodding, 2–6 dm, with numerous ascending, whorled branches; lemmas scabrous on the nerves, the body 6–9 mm; awn of pistillate spikelets 1–5 mm; 2n=24. Marshes and streambanks on the coastal plain; Md. to Fla. and Tex., n. in the interior to se. Mo.

It is a subtropical plant.

The young tips of the white rhizomes are sliced, cooked and eaten with butter.

Can be grown by seedlings.