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Least Duckweed

Lemna minuta

4,623Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
67Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan24
Feb34
Mar94
Apr69
May87
Jun268
Jul787
Aug1,362
Sep1,273
Oct331
Nov147
Dec20

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England337
2Suffolk England167
3West Berkshire England153
4Norfolk England141
5Worcestershire England136
6Oxfordshire England134
7Surrey England131
8Kent England125
9Dorset England117
10Somerset England116
11Essex England107
12Nottinghamshire England61
13Sefton England44
14Carmarthenshire Wales44
15Gloucestershire England41
4,326 England2 Scotland280 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 67 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,623
Peak month
August
Counties with records
67
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Lemna minuta
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,316
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Lemna
Name with authority
Lemna minuta Kunth
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159886 · GBIF 2867614