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Lemna perpusilla
Also called Duckweed, Khudipana, Tiny Duckweed
Minute duckweed is a tiny free-floating aquatic plant that forms dense green mats on still water. It grows best in calm, nutrient-rich ponds or tanks with plenty of sun.
Lemna perpusilla, the tiny duckweed or minute duckweed, is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is native to the central and eastern United States (but not the Deep South), and Quebec in Canada, and has been introduced to various locations around the world. It prefers still or very slowly moving waters.
Lesser duckweed · Swollen duckweed · Common duckweed · Least duckweed · Star duckweed · Turion duckweed · Valdivia duckweed · Plants
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lemna perpusilla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
