Lemna minorL.

Common Duckweed

WFO wfo-0000224440 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lemna minor, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203257295
Lemna minor, photographed by ALLIE BORGMEYER
fig. b ALLIE BORGMEYER, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203871919
Lemna minor, photographed by Mila C.
fig. c Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203281733
Lemna minor, photographed by David Sandler
fig. d David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201005326
Lemna minor, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. e Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199272514
Lemna minor, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200562947
Lemna minor, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. g Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199025950
Lemna minor, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. h Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198918913

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Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • 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 Montandon
  • Lenticularia monorhiza Friche-Joset & Montandon
  • Lenticularia vulgaris Lam.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.