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Lemna minor Aquatic Vegetation | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Lemna minor Aquatic Vegetation Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: Habitat is seasonal to perennial pools, ponds, lakes, and sloughs, usually at lower elevations. This association forms bright green floating mats on the surface of the water, usually growing so dense that no open water is visible. <i>Lemna</i> needs open water to proliferate in winter and spring, but it tolerates being stranded on mudflats when ponds and pools dry out in summer. Other small floating species are common components of this association, particularly <i>Spirodela polyrrhiza, Azolla, Wolffia</i>, and the aquatic liverworts <i>Ricciocarpos natans</i> and <i>Riccia fluitans</i>, but they are always subordinate to <i>Lemna</i>. All of these species can survive stranding on mud but cannot survive complete desiccation. It is not clear if this association is enhanced by eutrophic conditions caused by enriched runoff in agricultural or urban landscapes.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32188-{5B6F2CF5-FDAF-4893-8519-DA61E32E5552} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Oct-2002 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Lemna minor - Wolffia borealis - Wolffia columbiana Aquatic Vegetation Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688485 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL003305   Translated: Common Duckweed Aquatic Vegetation   Scientific: Lemna minor Aquatic Vegetation (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Lemna minor Herbaceous Vegetation (similar) Lemna minor Herbaceous Vegetation