Wolffiella lingulata

Mud midget

Family: Araceae · Type: perennial · Native

Mud midget is a California native perennial found in coastal regions, interior valleys, northern coastal, Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, central coast, San Francisco Bay area, and southern coastal areas at elevations below 200 meters. Flowering throughout the year, this tiny aquatic plant produces very small, inconspicuous greenish flowers. Growing as a minute floating plant with a distinctive semicircular body that is concave on its upper surface, it forms delicate clusters on water surfaces. Its body is characterized by a unique budding pouch with a track of long cells positioned between the middle and lower edge of its surface. This diminutive aquatic plant represents a remarkable example of miniature plant adaptation in wetland and water environments.

Habitat: Coastal, interior valleys

Bloom period: All year

Elevation: < 200 m

Bioregions: NCo, SNF, GV, CCo, SnFrB, SCo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.