Creeping Jenny

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea')
Roundish chartreuse leaves and yellow flowers on trailing stems make this mat-forming perennial ideal for softening the edges of tall urns or hanging baskets.

Creeping Jenny - also know as moneywort - seemed the best choice.
Creeping Jenny is a fast growing, prostrate plant with pairs or round, penny-sized leaves along the slender stems that snake out from the center of the plant.

Creeping Jenny is a low-growing, rampant, evergreen groundcover with rounded leaves. In summer, it produces many cup-shaped, bright yellow flowers.
Lamium maculatum
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Moneywort aka Creeping Jenny
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The most familiar example is the common creeping Jenny (L. Nummularia), than which there is no hardy flower more suitable for any position where long-drooping, flower-laden shoots are desired, whether on points of the rock garden, or on steep banks, ...

The leaves form a radical rosette as in Primula (primrose, cowslip, &c.), or there is a well-developed aerial stem which is erect, as in species of Lysimachia, or creeping, as in Lysimachia Nummularia (creeping jenny or money-wort).

annual bindweed, barbine, bear bind, bindweed, common bindweed, corn bind, corn-bind, cornbine, corn-lily, creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, devil's-guts, European bindweed, European glorybind, European morningglory, field bindweed, ...

The genus name is shared with diverse plants, most famously Creeping Jenny, likewise invasive & disliked by some gardeners who can't keep it from creeping through their lawns.

Plants for summer baskets:
Argyranthemum, Lysimachia (creeping jenny), Dichondra 'Silver Falls', Fuchsia, Pelargonium (geraniums), Lobelia, Viola (pansies), Petunia, Salvia and Nicotiana (tobacco plants).

Yellow Creeping Jenny [English]: Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea'
Yellow Creeping Monkey-Flower [English]: Mimulus primuloides
Yellow Creeping Zinnia [English]: Sanvitalia ocymoides
Yellow Crocus [English]: Crocus flavus ...

#756 Tradescantia zebrina
Common Names: wandering Jew, purple wandering Jew, inch plant, cockroach grass, creeping Jenny
Family: Commelinaceae (spiderwort Family)
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Other common names include: Creeping Jenny, Ground Pine, Running Pine, Running Cedar, Christmas Green, Trailing Evergreen, Issler's Clubmoss (UK), Plattlummer, Jämna (Swe), Skogjamne (Nor), Flad Ulvefod (Dan), Keltalieko (Fin), ...

Lysimachia nummularia (Moneywort, Creeping Jenny)
Lysimachia procumbens (Golden Globes)
Lysimachia punctata (Large Yellow Loosestrife)
Primula alpicola (Moonlight Primrose)
Primula auricula (Bears Ear, Auricula)
Primula beesiana ...

However, there are also flowering plants that will survive in light shade, such as Lobelia, Fuchsia and Busy Lizzie, Begonia and Creeping Jenny.

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
Creeping Lilyturf (Liriope spicata)
Creeping Phlox (Phlox stolonifera 'Bruce's White')
Creeping Phlox (Phlox stolonifera 'Blue Ridge') ...

Loosestrifes are easily cultivated flowers that thrive under moist conditions; some are creeping species, e.g., the moneywort, or creeping Jenny, of E North America. Several unrelated plants are also called .

Moneywort, Cornsalad, Cotton Thistle, Cottonweed, Cow Parsley, Cowbane, Cowberry, Cowslip, Crab Apple, Crack Willow, Cranberry, Creeping Bellflower, Creeping Bent, Creeping Buttercup, Creeping Cinquefoil, Creeping Forget-me-not, Creeping Jenny, ...

See also: Green, May, Grass, Ivy, Loosestrife