Moneywort (Creeping Charlie, Creeping Jenny, Loosestrife)
Lysimachia nummularia. PRIMULACEAE.
Planting and Growing Moneywort
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow moneywort in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of moneywort
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for moneywort
- Season of bloom and planting time for moneywort
- When, how deep, and where to plant moneywort
- How to plant moneywort
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of moneywort
- Landscape and container uses of moneywort
- Comments about moneywort and its features
Growing Moneywort
Several cultivars of mounding or trailing, semi-aquatic, deciduous perennial herbs, 3–10 in. (75–250 mm) tall, with stems to 20 in. (50 cm) long. Opposite, shiny, light green, round and coinlike or pointed leaves, to 1 in. (25 mm) wide.
Popular cultivars include Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’, with pale gold leaves, deepening to lime green in shade.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many, single gold, yellow, cup-shaped flowers, to 1 in. (25 mm) wide, on short stalks from junction of leaves and stem, in summer.
Best Climates
Hardy. Zones 3–8. Best in cool, moist climates.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained humus or, in water features, shallow-depth marginal or shoreline sites. Fertility: Rich. 6.0–8.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Summer in full sun to partial shade, 9–18 in. (23–45 cm) apart, or submerged to 1 in. (25 mm).
Proper Care
Easy. Keep evenly moist. Fertilize monthly. Propagate by division.
About This Plant
Good choice for accents, backgrounds in bog, natural, woodland gardens or water feature margins and shorelines. Pest and disease resistant.