Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Lemna minor L.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Lemna cyclostasa (Ell.) Chev., Lemna minima Chev. ex Schleid., Possibly Lemna minima Philipi.--Britton & Brown

Common names:

Common duckweed (1942-Present) (50, 155)

Duck's-meat [Duckmeat, Duck meat, Duck's meat, Ducks' meat, Duck'smeat] (1876?-1913) (5, 92)

Duckweed (1977) (3, 92)

Green duck meat (1840) (19)

Least duckweed (1913-1942) (5, 155)

Lesser duckweed (1907-1937) (5, 72, 93, 97)

Mardling (1913) (5)

Toad-spit [Toad spit] (1913) (5)

Valdivia duckweed (1913-1937) (5, 97)

Water lentils (1913) (5)