common duckweed
lesser duckweed
lemna minor latin

Aquatic vegetation is limited to a small number of ponds, and includes common duckweed, iris and water violet.

Found in a wide range of still or slow-flowing water bodies, common duckweed can also occur on mud or damp rocks.

S. polyrrhiza) is a species of duckweed known by the common names greater duckweed, common duckweed, and duckmeat.

Many helophytes can also be termed hydrophytes or aquatic plants,e.g. common duckweed (Lemna minor), eelgrass (Zostera sp.)

Common aquatic plants in the water column includes Rigid Hornwort and Yellow Water-lily coupled with a presence of Nuttall's waterweed, Frogbit, Common Duckweed, White Waterlily, Amphibious Bistort, and four species of Pondweeds.

Lemna minor (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.

Both species grow well in a tropical tank, and lesser Duckweed thrives in cold water too, where many coldwater fish, including Goldfish will eat it.

It too is sometimes available from aquarium plant suppliers, though not as commonly as the lesser Duckweed Lemna minor, which is the smallest British flowering plant.

Lemna minor (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.