Lysimachia nummularia
Moneywort, Creeping Jenny, Creeping Charlie, Wandering Sally, Wandering Jenny
3-5
Northern Europe

Low creeping plant which roots at will
2-4 inches tall and can spread to 24 inches
Large quantities of yellow cup-shaped flowers about ˝ inch across, solitary and axillary. The corolla is rotate or campanulate, 5 lobed and sparsely dark-dotted calyx is 5 or 6 lobed.
Late spring
Opposite, orbicular, nearly 1 inch long, leaf base obtuse, rounding or slightly cordate, short petioles of about ˝ inch.
 
 
  • 'Aurea' - Yellow foliage.

 
The specific epithet nummularia is derived from the Latin word nummus, coin and refers to the small, almost circular, leaves.

 

 
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