| Scientific Name: | Lemna minor |
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| Genus species: | Lemna minor |
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| Common Name: | Common Duckweed |
| Family Name: | Lemnaceae 
Tiny, annual aquatics, floating on the water surface or suspended beneath, reproducing primarily asexually by budding and fragmentation; plant body a thallus (not distinguishable into stem and leaf); flowers unisexual (but rarely present), consisting of a single stamen or a single pistil; fruit a utricle. |
| Seed Type: | Angiosperm |
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Native |
| Category: | Aquatic |
| Identified by: | B. Dole |
