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creeping jenny

Lysimachia nummularia · Primulaceae · Wikipedia

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Lysimachia nummularia sets limited evidence. On lysimachia nummularia, 2 legal list rows (DE, MA) is the next nummularia fact. The rows do not erase each other — Lysimachia nummularia. limited evidence does not replace 2 legal list on lysimachia nummularia.

On lysimachia nummularia, Lysimachia nummularia also carries 2 ecological invasive reports for nummularia.

Use evidence on lysimachia nummularia for nummularia. Use legal-list on lysimachia nummularia for nummularia. The citations remain on Lysimachia nummularia for nummularia.

Form
groundcover
Rated in
Alaska
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Alaska
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Protect Your Home from Wildfire — Fire Resistant Vegetation and Landscaping · Official scoped edition
    • AK; partial normalized coverage · 2005-04-27

      Alaska Division of Forestry opens with the wildfire threat to Alaskans and publishes Alaska firewise-landscape examples. FireApproved publishes 58 exact source owners from its 60 taxon entries and holds the taxon-free fern label. State publication scope does not establish suitability for every Alaska climate, site, or home-ignition-zone placement.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV.
Introduced / established
37 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status
2 legal-list records; the Place chip matches exact scope.
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
Plant-specific legal-list reviews (1)

These source-bound review receipts are separate from ecological invasive reports. A source or plant identity change invalidates a receipt.

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

37

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

37 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alabama (AL)
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • District of Columbia (DC)
  • Delaware (DE)
  • Georgia (GA)
  • Iowa (IA)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Kansas (KS)
  • Kentucky (KY)
  • Louisiana (LA)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maryland (MD)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • Mississippi (MS)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • South Carolina (SC)
  • Tennessee (TN)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • West Virginia (WV)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Recommends (1)

Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)
  • Protect Your Home from Wildfire — Fire Resistant Vegetation and Landscaping — Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, Community Forestry Program · April 2005 · original source Corroboration Expert-curated lineage: unknown

    “Following are a few of the plants that may be used in firewise landscapes in Alaska if placed and maintained appropriately.”

    Listed as Creeping Jenny — Lysimachia nummularia; the source conditions these examples on appropriate placement and maintenance.

Fire-resistant groundcovers instead

Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Lysimachia nummularia (Creeping Jenny). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/lysimachia-nummularia/. Last verified 2026-08-25.