Lemna minor L.

ARACEAE

- Arum family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Lemna minor L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 970 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common duckweed

English name: common duckweed

English name: duckweed

Italian name: Lenticchia d'acqua comune

German name: kleine Wasserlinse

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Lemna cyclostasa Elliot ex Schleid.
= Lemna minima Chevall. ex Schleid.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Lemna minor L. var. obscura Austin

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Arecidae
Order: Arales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Lemna
Species:

Page counter: 1718 ( AVG: 221.73 / 290.652 )

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Lemna minor
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Lemna minor
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Lemna minor
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola dell'Asinara, Comune di Porto Torres, ai piedi del Castellaccio lungo la strada, SS, Sardegna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lemna minor
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Lemna minor
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lemna minor
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Lemna minor
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Lemna minor
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 448.

Lemna minor
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio, nei pressi degli istituti universitari. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lemna minor
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Lemna minor
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Lemna minor
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, MB, ON, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Lemna minor L.
Map for Lemna minor L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Lemna minor L. var. obscura Austin [136]
2) Lemna minuscula Herter [170]
3) Lemna minuta Kunth [1460]
4) Lemna paucicostata Hegelm. [136]
5) Lemna perpusilla Torr. var. trinervis Austin [153]
6) Lemna trinervis (Austin) Small [92]
7) Lempholemma myriococcum (Ach.) Th. Fr. [135]
8) Leontodon autumnalis L. [1805]
9) Leontodon hastilis L. var. vulgaris W.D.J. Koch [144]
10) Leontodon taraxacum L., nom. inq., p.p. [208]

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