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Lemna minor (common duckweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lemna minor, the common duckweed or lesser duckweed, is a species of Lemna (duckweed) with a subcosmopolitan distribution, native throughout most of Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, occurring everywhere that freshwater ponds and slow-moving streams occur, except for arctic and subarctic climates. It is not reported as native in Australasia or South America, though is naturalised there.
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Infraspecies

Lemna minor var. minor
Lemna minor var. orbiculata

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Summer
Drought Tolerance [1]  None
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Frost Free Days [1]  3 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Form [1]  Single Crown
Growth Period [1]  Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed, Sprig
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Shape/Orientation [1]  Decumbent
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The dried plant repels mosquitoes;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Flower Color [1]  Green
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Height [2]  0.394 inches (0.01 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Submerged
Water Use [1]  High
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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 8FEEDING ECOLOGY OF PINTAIL HENS DURING REPRODUCTION, GARY L. KRAPU, The Auk 91: 278-290. April 1974
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 11Dietary Overlap in Three Sympatric Congeneric Freshwater Turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Cynthia J. Lagueux and Dale R. Jackson, Chelonian Conservation Biology, 1997, 2(3):430-433
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0