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Top native duckweed

9 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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9 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 3 Part shade 2 Full shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Wet 3

Water use

High 2

Form

Habit

Dense 2 Spreading 2 Creeping 1

Plant type

Perennial 7 Wildflower 7 Herbaceous perennial 2 Water plant 1
  • Common Duckweed Lemna minor caterpillars 1 food 17
  • Ivy-leaved Duckweed Lemna trisulca caterpillars 1 food 11
  • Valdivia Duckweed Lemna valdiviana caterpillars 1 food 8
  • Lesser Duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis caterpillars 1 food 7 flowers 1
  • Least Duckweed Lemna minuta caterpillars 1 food 7
  • Turion Duckweed Lemna turionifera caterpillars 1 food 7
  • Fat Duckweed Lemna gibba caterpillars 1 food 7
  • Little Duckweed Lemna obscura caterpillars 1 food 7
  • Minute Duckweed Lemna perpusilla

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