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Least duckweed
Lemna minuta
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Description:
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Facts:
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One of the smallest of the duckweeds found in the UK (the darker plants in the image are Wolffia columbiana another duckweed) it forms dense mats on ponds and watercourses that can block virtually all the light to aquatic plants beneath them. |
Introduced: |
1977
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Origin:
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North
and South America
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Location:
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Still
and slow moving waterways in England, Wales and Channel Isles
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Status:
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Increasing
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Problems:
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Comments:
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| Chokes waterways and outcompetes native vegetation | |||