Common name: Common Duckweed
Family: Araceae
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Country of Origin: Cosmopolitan
Description: Minute, floating perennial herb; plant bodies solitary or few-clustered, orbicular to elliptic-obovate, 1/16" - 3/16" long.
Cosmopolitan
Waterfowl feed on these plants.
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Source: Unknown
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Lemnoideae
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References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 September 2014.
- Plants For A Future Website
- Wayne Armstrongs treatment of the Lemnaceae. Accessed 25 August 2015.
- The Charms of Duckweed at Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed 25 August 2015.
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