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Pistia stratiotes
Water lettuce Wa"ter let"tuce (Bot.) A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Meaning of Pistia from wikipedia

- Pistia is a genus of aquatic plants in the arum family, Araceae. It is the sole genus in the tribe Pistieae which reflects its systematic isolation within...
- blown by air and provide breeding ground for mosquitoes. Examples include Pistia spp. commonly called water lettuce, water cabbage or Nile cabbage. The many...
- laevis Any of several plants in the genus Tigridia Pistia stratiotes, the sole species in the genus Pistia. This page is an index of articles on plant species...
- Alfalfa Maize (corn) Gr****-legume mix Sorghums Oats Lemna minorDuckweed Pistia stratiotesWater lecttuce Eichhornia cr****ipes – Water hyacinth Salvinia...
- lay their eggs on water plants like Azolla caroliniana (water velvet), Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce), and Salvinia rotundifolia (water fern). Larval...
- Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) in Odesa, Ukraine...
- Nymphoides cristata Paederia cruddasiana Paederia foetida Pani**** repens Pistia - actually likely a native cryptogenic species, but listed as invasive Psidium...
- feed on a variety of aquatic macrophytes, including aroids (especially Pistia, aka "water lettuce"), gr****es, bladderworts, hornworts, water lilies, and...
- mainly grow in the north where the salinity is high, and the floating plant pistia sometimes covers large areas of open water. Plants such as hyparrhenia rufa...
- hydropiperoides Persicaria praetermissa Pilularia americana Pilularia globulifera Pistia stratiotes (Water lettuce) Phyllanthus fluitans Physostegia purpurea Pogostemon...