Aquarium Hints and Tips - Creeping Jenny

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Creeping Jenny - Lysimachia Nummularia

Middle ground plant
Medium to Soft Water
Temperature range 17-24C / 62-75F.
pH range 6.6 -7.5
Medium to strong lighting
Easy to Care for

Creeping Jenny is a very beautiful addition to the planted aquarium with small rounded leaves. It develops branches and roots from the leaf nodes and will spread easily across your substrate.

Creeping Jenny It does have tender leaves and is treated as a source of food by some fish. It will grow well in medium or strong lighting and adds some flexibility to your choice of position for it.

It tends to have a 'creeping' habit growing a couple of inches tall but spreading hence the name. It is also known as Moneywort, Herb tuppence or tuppence grass.

It is also a well known plant in gardens being a marginal or bog plant as well as being capable of growing fully submerged. It prefers cooler water being a cold water plant rather than tropical but will grow successfully in the temperatures that are listed.

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