Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Water lettuce / Pistia

Pistia stratiotes

Description:

Pistia is a genus of aquatic plant in the arum family, Araceae. The single species it comprises, Pistia stratiotes, is often called water cabbage, water lettuce, Nile cabbage, or shellflower. It s a floating water plant that has a velvety foliage that spreads like a lettuce leaf arranged in a spiral formation. It is an invasive plant that can make a floating carpet mat on the surface of the water that causes an oxygen depletion resulting to fish kill.

Habitat:

Fresh water surfaces. Marsh land lakes watery fields, drainage and fishponds.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines

Spotted on Jan 3, 2015
Submitted on Jan 27, 2015

Related Spottings

water lettuce Water Lettuce Water Cabbage Water lettuce / water cabbage

Nearby Spottings

Autumn leaf butterfly Impatiens Hawk Moth Jumping spider Lady Bird
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team