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§1 Plant

Lysimachia nummularia L.

vernacular creeping jenny — species · Primulaceae


USDA
LYNU
GBIF
3169379
Rank
species
creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Platephotograph · miroslavamalovcovaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Primulaceae Batsch
Genus
Lysimachia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 707 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 707 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 707 counties across 29 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 7 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 80 I
Indiana view state ↗ 46 I
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I
Kansas view state ↗ 12 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 50 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I
Michigan view state ↗ 29 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 10 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
Missouri view state ↗ 38 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 I
New York view state ↗ 38 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 I
Ohio view state ↗ 82 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 56 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 26 I
Vermont view state ↗ 12 I
Virginia view state ↗ 73 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 36 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 29 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LYNU ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3169379 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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