A short-grain sticky rice, sometimes called sushi rice. It is grown across Asia, California and Arkansas. Rice with a reddish-brown bran layer, a nutty taste and chewy consistency. Grown in Spain, it is similar to Arborio. It's the rice used for paella, the Spanish dish that pairs rice with seafood, chicken, rabbit or chorizo and vegetables.
Wild rice looks like rice but is actually an aquatic grass.
Native to North America, today most wild rice is cultivated in man-made paddies from the northern Great Lakes to California.