Have a couple plants I need ID'd

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fluffyntex

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This was sold to me as Water Lettuce, however, if you google water lettuce you wont find any that look anything like this......

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and this little guy was hitching a ride with it....

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It could be Greater Duckweed, which is a much larger version of the more common duckweed. Search for Spirodela polyrhiza and look at pics to see if it looks like your plant. Another possibility would be Red Root Floater (Phyllanthus fluitans). Do a search on that one too. :) I can't tell from your pic which one it is.

Can you get any clearer pics of the 2nd plant? Its hard to ID from those pics. :(
 
It could be Greater Duckweed, which is a much larger version of the more common duckweed. Search for Spirodela polyrhiza and look at pics to see if it looks like your plant. Another possibility would be Red Root Floater (Phyllanthus fluitans). Do a search on that one too. :) I can't tell from your pic which one it is.

Can you get any clearer pics of the 2nd plant? Its hard to ID from those pics. :(

Well it's not greater duckweed, it's larger than that.
It looks alot like the Red Root Floater but the roots are not as big nor are they red.
 
Second plant could easily be a ludwigia (arcuataxrepens) or a hygrophila (like sp. bold)... could be one f the smaller polygonums (like ruby)as well, that is really small though for a polygonum.

Get a pic in focus on it, hard to tell.
 
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