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.