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§1 Plant

Lemna aequinoctialis Welw.

vernacular lesser duckweed — species · Lemnaceae


USDA
LEAE2
GBIF
2867616
Rank
species
lesser duckweed (Lemna aequinoctialis)
Platephotograph · Kevin ThieleCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Lemnaceae Martinov
Genus
Lemna
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 135 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 135 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 135 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 15 N
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N
Florida view state ↗ 23 N
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 30 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N
Missouri view state ↗ 20 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LEAE2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2867616 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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