Pistia stratiotes L. Species

Water Lettuce

Introduced herb species. Naturalized, cultivated.

Other common names

Lettuce Water en, Nile Lettuce en, Nile Cabbage en, Water Cabbage en, Shellflower en, Tropical Duckweed en.

Distribution

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, China (Hong Kong, Macau), Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Martin, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Specimens & Observations 1 records

BOS.00107812 ?

Observation

Sex / Stage

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Observed by

Ong Kwan Han

Identified by

Ong Kwan Han

Resources

More information on the species on Wikipedia.

External Databases

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