Lysimachia Creeping Jenny

Genus:Lysimachia
Species:nummularia
Variety:Creeping Jenny
Item Form:1-Quart
Zone:3 – 9
Bloom Start to End:Early Summer – Mid Summer
Height:6 in
Width:24 in
Additional Characteristics:Easy Care Plants,Flower
Bloom Color:Yellow
Foliage Color:Light Green
Light Requirements:Full Sun,Part Shade
Moisture Requirements:Moist, well-drained
Resistance:Cold Hardy
Soil Tolerance:Clay,Normal, loamy,Sandy
Uses:Fall Color,Ground Cover,Winter Interest,Baskets,Beds,Border,Containers

Lysimachia Creeping Jenny is an evergreen flowering perennial ground cover, typically grown for its stunning foliage. This elegant, ornamental plant forms a dense leafy mat of small ovate to heart-shaped foliage that’s slightly ruffled. In early to midsummer, single, cup-shaped bright yellow flowers bloom along the thin, trailing stems, supporting pollinators.

A Lysimachia nummularia, commonly called creeping Jenny, moneywort, or herb twopence, creeping Jenny has a trailing habit and spreads by creeping stems to form large colonies, in optimum growing conditions. Creeping Jenny is best planted in areas of the garden or landscape where it can naturalize, such as in woodland gardens, along paths or streams, or around pools and ponds. This trailing plant also makes a stunning “spiller” in hanging baskets or containers, which help contain its spread.

Cold hardy and easy to grow, creeping Jenny grows best in a partially sunny location with moist, humus-rich, well-draining soil but adapts to a wide range of soils, including chalky, clay, loamy, rocky, sandy, and wet soils. The plant is drought tolerant, deer resistant, and generally pest and disease free.