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Lysimachia nummularia |
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Moneywort, Creeping Jenny, Creeping Charlie,
Wandering Sally, Wandering Jenny |
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Northern Europe |
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Low creeping plant which roots at will |
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2-4 inches tall and can spread to 24 inches |
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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. |
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Late spring |
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Opposite, orbicular, nearly 1 inch long, leaf
base obtuse, rounding or slightly cordate, short petioles of
about ˝ inch. |
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'Aurea' - Yellow foliage.
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The specific epithet nummularia is derived
from the Latin word nummus, coin and refers to the
small, almost circular, leaves. |
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