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Scientific Name: | Lemna minor |
Common Name: | common duckweed |
Family Name: | Araceae |
Origin: | Australia / New Zealand, North America, South Asia / India |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
Plant Type: | Aquatic plant, Weed (horticultural) |
Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading |
Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Aquatic - ponds, Wetland - bogs, Wildlife food |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Bog |
Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Whorled, Succulent, Lustrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Ovate |
Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Green-yellow, May-Jun-Jul |
Fruit: | Achene, Green-yellow, Jul-Aug |
Key ID Features: | |
Floating aquatic weed; fronds 2-6mm long, succulent, flat and circular, similar in appearance to squashed peas, un-stalked but with thin adventitious roots arising from the blade. |