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Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)

I first saw these floating in the water at Silver Springs when I was a kid. I collected a couple of plants years later and keep them growing in a small goldfish pond in the yard. They will not survive the winter in Georgia, but multiply rapidly during the summer.

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Uploaded on June 28, 2012
Taken on June 27, 2012