Skye Flora

Duckweed


Lemna minor

 

Lemna minor

Photo © Carl Farmer
12 Sep 2003 Dunbar, E Lothian

Rare, in lowland pools and ditches

Leaf c 2-5 mm diameter

Skye ID: Not differentiated into stem and leaf, the leaf or thallus floating on the water surface with a white root hanging down from the underside.

Other features: Often completely covers an area of water.  Flowers minute, greenish, rare, probably never in Skye.  Mostly reproduces vegetatively, each leaf producing new ones which eventually separate from it.  Leaves usually about 3-6 together.

 

Lemna minor

Photo © Carl Farmer
13 Sep 2003 Haddington, E Lothian

 

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