Lysimachia nummularia
Also known as: Ephemerum nummularia, Lysimachia nemorum, Lysimachia nummularia festiva, Lysimachia nummularia longipes, Lysimachia nummularia suaveolens, Lysimachia nummularia submersa, Lysimachia repens, Lysimachia rotundifolia, Lysimachia suaveolens, Lysimachusa nummularia, Naumburgia prostrata, Nummularia centimorbia, Nummularia officinalis, Nummularia prostrata, Nummularia repens
Species profile
- Accepted name
- Lysimachia nummularia L. Species
- Common names
- creeping yellow loosestrife, Creeping Jenny, creeping loosestrife, Herb-tuppence, Moneywort
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Division
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Primulaceae
- Genus
- Lysimachia
- Habitat
- terrestrial|freshwater, terrestrial, Wetlands (inland); Artificial - Terrestrial, Artificial - Terrestrial; Wetlands (inland)
- Distribution
- North America; England (England, Wales, Isle of Man [I], Scotland [I], Orkney Isl. [I], Shetland Isl. [I], Isles of Scilly [I]); Ireland (Ireland, Northern Ireland); Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Finland [I]; Netherlands; Belgium; Luxembourg; Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; France; Channel Isl. (Guernsey); Corsica [I]; Italy; Slovenia; Croatia; Bosnia & Hercegovina; Montenegro; Serbia; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Albania; Romania; Bulgaria; European Turkey; Greece (scattered N-Greece, rare C-Greece, Thasos, Samothraki); Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; European Russia; Moldova; Ukraine; Crimea; Siberia (Altay, W-Siberia); Russian Far East [I] (Primorye [I]); Northern Caucasus; Turkey (NW-Anatolia: Bithynia); Australia [I] (Tasmania [I]); New Zealand [I]; Canada [I] (British Columbia [I], New Brunswick [I], Newfoundland [I], Nova Scotia [I], Ontario [I], Prince Edward Isl. [I], Québec [I]); USA [I] (Alabama [I], Arkansas [I], California [I], Colorado [I], Connecticut [I], District of Columbia [I], Delaware [I], Georgia [I], Iowa [I], Illinois [I], Indiana [I], Kansas [I], Kentucky [I], Louisiana [I], Massachusetts [I], Maryland [I], Maine [I], Michigan [I], Minnesota [I], Missouri [I], Mississippi [I], North Carolina [I], Nebraska [I], New Hampshire [I], New Jersey [I], Nevada [I], New York [I], Ohio [I], Oregon [I], Pennsylvania [I], Rhode Island [I], South Carolina [I], Tennessee [I], Virginia [I], Vermont [I], Washington State [I], Wisconsin [I], West Virginia [I]); Alabama; Albania; Altay
- Published in
- L. (1753). In: Sp. Pl.: 148.
Media and observations
herb (Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN))
Europe (DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe)
GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-10-05. Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/3169379 https://www.gbif.org/species/3169379 · Last updated Oct 5, 2026, 3:31 AM