Accession Data:
Lemna minor L.
- Common Name: Common Duckweed
- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Cosmopolitan
- Habitat: Still water
- Description: Minute, floating perennial herb; plant bodies solitary or few-clustered, orbicular to elliptic-ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate, 1/16" - 3/16" long.
Cosmopolitan
Waterfowl feed on these plants.
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198502634
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-17-2023
- Restrictions:
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Lemnoideae
- Tribe:
- SubTribe:
References (internal):
- Aquatic Plants
- Acropleustophyte
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Denmark / Finland / Føroyar / Great Britain / Iceland / Ireland / Norway / Svalbard / Sweden / Austria / Belgium / Czechoslovakia / Germany / Hungary / Netherlands / Poland / Switzerland / Baleares / Corse / France / Portugal / Sardegna / Spain / Albania / Bulgaria / Greece / Italy / Kriti / Romania / Sicilia / Turkey-in-Europe / Yugoslavia / Belarus / Baltic States / Krym / Central European Russia / East European Russia / North European Russia / South European Russia / Northwest European Russia / Ukraine / Algeria / Egypt / Libya / Morocco / Tunisia / Azores / Canary Is. / Cape Verde / Madeira / Zaire / Chad / Ethiopia / Kenya / Uganda / Mozambique / Cape Provinces / Lesotho / KwaZulu-Natal / Northern Provinces / Altay / Buryatiya / Chita / Irkutsk / Krasnoyarsk / Tuva / West Siberia / Yakutskiya / Amur / Kamchatka / Khabarovsk / Magadan / Primorye / Sakhalin / Kazakhstan / Kirgizistan / Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan / North Caucasus / Transcaucasus / Afghanistan / Cyprus / East Aegean Is. / Iran / Iraq / Lebanon-Syria / Palestine / Sinai / Turkey / Xinjiang / Bangladesh / India / Nepal / Pakistan / West Himalaya / Cambodia / Malaya / Philippines / Queensland / New Zealand South / Alaska / Alberta / British Columbia / Manitoba / Saskatchewan / Labrador / New Brunswick / Newfoundland / Nova Scotia / Ontario / Prince Edward I. / Québec / Colorado / Idaho / Montana / Oregon / Washington / Wyoming / Illinois / Iowa / Kansas / Minnesota / Missouri / North Dakota / Nebraska / Oklahoma / South Dakota / Wisconsin / Connecticut / Indiana / Maine / Masachusettes / Michigan / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New York / Ohio / Pennsylvania / Rhode I. / Vermont / West Virginia / Arizona / California / Nevada / Utah / New Mexico / Texas / Alabama / Arkansas / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maryland / Mississippi / North Carolina / South Carolina / Tennessee / Virginia / District of Columbia / Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Northwest / El Salvador / Honduras / Nicaragua / Bermuda / Brazil Northeast
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 September 2014.
- Plants For A Future Website
- Wayne Armstrongs treatment of the Lemnaceae. Accessed 25 August 2015.
- The Charms of Duckweed at Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed 25 August 2015.
data regenerated on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:51:16 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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