Zea mays L.

English: Corn, Maize

German: Mais

Mandarin: 玉蜀黍 (yu shu shu)

Portuguese: Milho

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Cyperales (91)

        Family: Poaceae (73)(family description)

          Genus: Zea (1)

            Epithet: mays L. (1)

mays => maize, corn

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: red, orange, yellow

Check for Zea mays at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [24] Image of Zea mays - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz
• [735] Zea mays - Plants For A Future database
• [1177] Zea mays - GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
• [1242] Zea - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
• [1529] Zea mays - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.