Freshwater
Common duckweed
Lemna minor
Lemnaceae
Facts
Care
- Growth form
- Floating
- Placement
- Surface
- Light
- Medium
- CO₂
- Not needed
- Growth
- Fast
- Difficulty
- Easy
Range
NativeIntroduced
Lives wild in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, and 68 more countries.
Introduced to Australia, Ecuador, New Zealand, and St. Helena.
More about the species
Description
Lemna minor, the common duckweed or lesser duckweed, is a species of aquatic freshwater plant in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the arum family Araceae. L. minor is used as animal fodder, bioremediator, for wastewater nutrient recovery, and other applications.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Hydrophace minor
- Lemna minima
- Lemna monorhiza
- Lemna ovata
- Lemna palustris
- Lemna rwandensis
In other languages
- Andemat
- Vanlig andmat
- Liden Andemad
- Pikkulimaska
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