Araceae
Common duckweed
Lemna minor
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Lemna
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Common names
By language (44)
- Arabic
- لمنة صغرى, خزوز, طحلب, عدس الماء, عرمض, علقى, غزل الماء, لمنة سبخية
- Armenian
- Ջրոսպ փոքր
- arz
- لمنه صغرى
- Asturian
- Llenteye d'agua
- Belarusian
- Раска малая
- Bulgarian
- Дребна водна леща
- Cantonese
- 浮飄
- Catalan
- Llentilla d'aigua, Llentia d'aigua
- Chinese
- 浮萍, 上石田螺, 水浮萍, 水萍草, 浮萍草, 田萍, 青萍, 小浮萍
- csb
- Drobnô rzãsa
- Czech
- Okřehek menší, Žabinec
- Danish
- Liden Andemad
- Dutch
- Klein kroos
- English
- Common duckweed
- Esperanto
- Pli malgranda lemno
- Estonian
- Väike lemmel
- Finnish
- Pikkulimaska
- French
- Petite Lentille d'Eau, Petite lentille deau
- frr
- Podkluader
- Galician
- Lentella de auga
- German
- Kleine Wasserlinse
- Hebrew
- עדשת מים זעירה
- hsb
- Mała kačizna
- Hungarian
- Apró békalencse
- Icelandic
- Ljósdoppa
- Italian
- Lenticchia d'acqua, Lenticchie d'acqua, Ranina, Ranine
- Japanese
- コウキクサ
- Lithuanian
- Mažoji plūdena
- lzh
- 萍
- Macedonian
- Ситна водна леќа
- mnc
- ᡳᠩᡤᠠᡵᡳ ᠣᡵᡥᠣ
- nan
- Chúi-phiô
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Andemat
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Andemat
- Persian
- عدسک آبی کوچک
- Polish
- Rzęsa drobna, Rzęsa mniejsza, Rzęsa wodna
- Romanian
- Lentiță mică
- Russian
- Ряска малая
- shn
- ၽမ်, ၶႆႇၽမ်
- Swedish
- Vanlig andmat
- Turkish
- Su mercimeği
- Ukrainian
- Ряска мала
- Welsh
- Llinad y dŵr
- wuu
- 薸
Synonyms
- Hydrophace minor (L.) Bubani
- Lemna conjugata Willd. ex Schleid.
- Lemna cyclostasa Elliott ex Chev.
- Lemna minima Thuill. ex P.Beauv.
- Lemna minor f. macrorhiza Norm.
- Lemna minor var. minima Chevall.
- Lemna minor var. orbiculata Austin
- Lemna minor var. oxymitra Hegelm.
- Lemna monorhiza Montandon
- Lemna obcordata Bojer
- Lemna ovata A.Br. ex C.Krauss
- Lemna palustris Haenke ex Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
- Lemna rwandensis De Sloover
- Lemna vulgaris (Lam.) Lam.
- Lenticula minima (Chev.) Kurz
- Lenticula minor (L.) Scop.
- Lenticula palustris Garsault
- Lenticula vulgaris Lam.
- Lenticularia monorhiza Friche-Joset & Montandon
- Lenticularia monorhiza Montandon
- Lenticularia vulgaris Lam.
Flowers
- Flower colour
- green (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
LeavesPhoto: Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Philipp, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Philipp, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dustin Minialoff, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: ajott, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Erin Springinotic, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Thompson Hyggen, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: frangp, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
More in Lemna
- Fat duckweedLemna gibbaAraceae
- Star duckweedLemna trisulcaAraceae
- 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.