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Lemna turionifera
Also called Turion duckweed (red duckweed), Perennial duckweed, Red Duckweed, Red Dukweed
Turion duckweed is a tiny floating freshwater plant in the Arum family, growing in calm ponds and ditches. It is grown in water rather than soil, and is kept in aquariums or water gardens for its rapid spread and winter-surviving turions.
Lemna turionifera is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Araceae.
The species is a floating freshwater aquatic plant, with one, two, three or four leaves each having a single root hanging in the water. Like its close relative Lemna minor, it reproduces primarily vegetatively. Unlike L. minor, however, the species is also capable of producing turions, which are starch-filled fronds that sink to the substrate and remain dormant until germinating when conditions are favorable.
Lesser duckweed · Swollen duckweed · Common duckweed · Least duckweed · Minute duckweed · Star duckweed · Valdivia duckweed · Plants
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lemna turionifera 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.
