The Tiger Pit
Duckweed
Lemna minor
Sparsely planted
Where it's from
Native to Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Altay and 167 more
Recorded as introduced in Ascension, Galápagos, New South Wales, New Zealand South and 6 more places
Native range: The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) (CC BY 4.0).
At a glance
- Light
- Low to high
- CO₂
- Not required
- Growth
- Extremely fast
- Temp
- 50–86°F
- 10–30°C
- pH
- 5.0–8.0
- GH
- 18–447 ppm
- 1–25 dGH
Ammonia 0 ppm and nitrate under 60 ppm.
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