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Lemna minor

Common Duckweed
Lemna minor

Family: Duckweed (Lemnaceae)
AKA: Lesser Duckweed
Photo taken on: July 13, 2020
Location: Agua Caliente Spring, Abiquiu, NM
Life Zones: Plains to foothills
Habitat: Shallow, still or slow-moving water

Grows free-floating on water with small, oval fronds, less than 1/4" across, and a single root dangling to 6" long. Flowers are rarely produced, propagation is by the forming of new shoots from buds.

Seen growing here with Watercress.

Flora of North America reference.

Green & Brown Flowers