Index / Search / Wolffia columbiana
§1 Plant
Wolffia columbiana Karst.
vernacular Columbian watermeal — species · Lemnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Lemnaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Wolffia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 440 counties across 34 states/territories§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 440 counties across 34 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Boone 17007
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Clay 17025
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Edgar 17045
- Franklin 17055
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Logan 17107
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Perry 17145
- Putnam 17155
- Randolph 17157
- Richland 17159
- Rock Island 17161
- Sangamon 17167
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Wabash 17185
- Warren 17187
- White 17193
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Carroll 18015
- Cass 18017
- Clark 18019
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Elkhart 18039
- Fountain 18045
- Fulton 18049
- Gibson 18051
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lake 18089
- Lawrence 18093
- Marshall 18099
- Noble 18113
- Steuben 18151
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Wabash 18169
- Warren 18171
- Wells 18179
- White 18181
Iowa view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- De Soto 22031
- East Feliciana 22037
- Grant 22043
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bollinger 29017
- Boone 29019
- Cole 29051
- Dade 29057
- Dunklin 29069
- Gasconade 29073
- Greene 29077
- Jackson 29095
- Johnson 29101
- Lincoln 29113
- Madison 29123
- Monroe 29137
- Newton 29145
- Ozark 29153
- Pettis 29159
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Randolph 29175
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Texas 29215
- Warren 29219
Nebraska view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Kings 36047
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Luzerne 42079
- Mercer 42085
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Brown 55009
- Buffalo 55011
- Chippewa 55017
- Crawford 55023
- Dane 55025
- Eau Claire 55035
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Grant 55043
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- Marquette 55077
- Oconto 55083
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- Sheboygan 55117
- St. Croix 55109
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vernon 55123
- Walworth 55127
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Winnebago 55139
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/WOCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5330085 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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