What is duckweed (lemma)?
Top Duckweek can look like a green carpet totally covering the water’s surface; upon close inspection, the carpet is made up of tiny floating plants, each with rootlets extending down from a cluster of tiny leaves. Reproduces very rapidly. Many fish like to eat duckweed. To provide a salad for your fish without a maintenance headache in your pond, keep your duckweed in a separate container and introduce into your pond only as much as your fish will readily consume. 59: What is water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)? Top An attractive floater with velvety pale green leaves which, as its name implies, look somewhat like a head of leaf lettuce. A somewhat finicky plant which does best in shallow, still water, warm temperatures, and broken sun. Roots provide good spawning ground. Water lettuce is not hardy. 60: What are marginal (or bog) plants? Top Marginal (bog) plants, so called because they grow at the margins of bodies of water, provide the water garden with great variety in texture, size,
