Green floater ID

[Laoshan]

This was a hitchhiker. Anyone recognize?

Leaves are a covered with soft white hairs. Roots are light, not very long and not dense. It does not look like Salvinia..

It makes a nice color combo with red Phyllanthus.

 

[G H Nelson]

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Pistia stratiotes

hoggie

 

[Laoshan]

Thanks @GHNelson. A familiar name but I hadn’t seen it before. Looks good together with Salvinia as well!

 

[mort]

Just a word of warning to be vigilant and not let it take over. Water lettuce can get massive, taking over and dominating your other floaters. I started with some small hitchhikers like yours and although they don't normally get more than 3-4" across (often smaller), for some reason they like my tank and I have several 8" ones. It makes it easy to control but like other floaters they can be pretty invasive if you let them.