Araceae
Fat duckweed
Lemna gibba
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Lemna
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Common names
By language (23)
- Arabic
- لمنة محدبة
- arz
- لمنه محدبه
- Belarusian
- Раска гарбатая
- Bulgarian
- Гърбава водна леща
- Croatian
- Grbasta vodena leća
- Czech
- Okřehek hrbatý
- Dutch
- Bultkroos
- English
- Fat duckweed, Swollen duckweed, Gibbous duckwee, Common duckweed
- Estonian
- Küürlemmel
- Finnish
- Kupulimaska
- French
- Lenticule Bossue, Lentille Bossue, Lentille d’eau bossue, Lentille gibbeuse
- German
- Bucklige Wasserlinse, Buckel-Wasserlinse, Buckelige Wasserlinse
- hsb
- Horbikata kačizna, Rjasa
- Japanese
- イボウキクサ
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Klumpandemat
- Persian
- عدسک آبی قوزدار, عدسک قوزدار
- Polish
- Rzęsa garbata
- Romanian
- Lentiță
- Russian
- Ряска горбатая
- Slovak
- Žaburinka pľuzgierkatá
- Swedish
- Kupandmat
- Ukrainian
- Ряска горбата
- Welsh
- Llinad crythog
Synonyms
- Lemna cordata Sessé & Moc.
- Lemna parodiana Giardelli
- Lemna trichorrhiza Thuill. ex Schleid.
- Lenticula gibba (L.) Moench
- Lenticula gibbosa P.Renault
- Telmatophace arrhiza Schur
- Telmatophace generalis E.H.L.Krause
- Telmatophace gibba (L.) Schleid.
- Telmatophace gibbosa (P.Renault) Montandon
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
LeavesPhoto: Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Zeamays at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Golfopolikayak, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Karelj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Karelj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: AfroBrazilian, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Lemna
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- Least duckweedLemna minutaAraceae
- Turion duckweedLemna turioniferaAraceae
- Minute duckweedLemna perpusillaAraceae
- Lesser duckweedLemna aequinoctialisAraceae
- Valdivia duckweedLemna valdivianaAraceae
- Little duckweedLemna obscuraAraceae
- Lemna dispermaAraceae
- Lemna japonicaAraceae
- Lemna teneraAraceae
- Lemna landoltiiAraceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.