moneywort

(Creeping Charlie, Moneywort) Lysimachia nummularia

Moneywort, creeping-Jenny Mahonia bealei (Fortune) carriere Beale's Oregon-grape Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam.

* Moneywort, creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea').

(*#) Lysimachia nummularia L.; Moneywort; Creeping Jenny; Floodplain woods and roadside fields; Abundant; C = 0; BSUH 17424.

White Nancy lamium, Lamiastrum galeobdolon, and golden moneywort edge the gardens.

Moneywort (also called creeping Jenny), is another option.

* Try this foolproof planting scheme: Line a shallow, bowl-shaped 18-inch basket with moss (or use a preformed liner), fill with a good-quality potting mix, plant a 1-gallon Liriope in the center, add three 1-gallon mother ferns, and fill in around the ferns with five 4-inch impatiens and three 4-inch trailers (ground ivy, moneywort, variegated Vinca major).

(*) Lysimachia nummularia L.; Moneywort; Creeping Jenny; Moist meadow; Abundant; C = 0; BSUH 13280.

Catnip sometimes grows back beside thistle, moneywort, chickweed, wild geranium, leafcup, henbit and yarrow.

If yellow carpets of fast-spreading, long-blooming flowers are what you want in a ground cover, consider these two easy-to-grow perennials: moneywort or creeping Jennie (Lysimachia nummularia) and goldmoss sedum (S.