Ivy-leaved Duckweed - Lemna trisulca
Submerged, translucent, aquatic plant, fronds oblong to narrowly oval, pointed, linked together by conspicuous, persistent stalks.
Ponds, lakes and canals.
May to July.
Perennial.
Widespread and fairly frequent in much of Britain, though scarcer in the far north and west.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 108 of the 617 tetrads.
Simon Bennett
Knighton garden
22 June 2016
Graham Calow
Whetstone Golf Course
08 July 2016
David Nicholls
Launde Fish Ponds
22 September 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Ivy-leaved Duckweed
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Alismatales
- Family:
- Araceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 20
- First record:
- 01/01/1979 (Patricia Evans)
- Last record:
- 10/10/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Launde Fish Ponds
22 September 2012
Graham Calow
Whetstone Golf Course
08 July 2016
Simon Bennett
Knighton garden
22 June 2016
