Watermeal is Earth’s smallest flowering plant found floating in pinhead-sized clumps. It could have a big impact on space exploration, providing food and oxygen for future astronauts.

The tiny plant appears seems to thrive in harsh conditions. A team of researchers working on sustaining astronauts on future missions have turned their attention to watermeal. Though not much ...

One of the early signs of spring is the appearance of very small, floating plants, the “watermeals” or Wolffias, on the surface of ponds and backwaters. These little oval, green, floating ...

Better known as Asian watermeal, it's the world's smallest flowering plant, less than one-third of an inch wide at its largest.

Duckweed and watermeal are two free-floating plants that can wreak havoc on a pond. These two plants are extremely small (duckweed is 1/8 to ¼ inch in diameter). You can tell these two plants apart by ...

Watermeal appears as tiny green "seeds" floating on the top of the water, with the leaf of the plant averaging at 0.2 to 1.5 millimeters in length alongside the absence of a root system. Duckweed ...

Our most common species, Brazilian watermeal (Wolffia brasiliensis) grows to be only about quarter of an inch long but can rapidly cover a pond by budding and growing new plants in four days or less.

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Watermeal is Earth’s smallest flowering plant found floating in pinhead-sized clumps. It could have a big impact on space exploration, providing food and oxygen for future astronauts.

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope image of approximately 1mm-diameter watermeal plants after hypergravity exposure. (ESA) A tiny plant with enormous potential Watermeal, even smaller than the more ...