frank lawrence on tue 19 sep 06

Google Lysimachia nummularia

Traveler in Thyme wrote: Mike, that pretty groundcover with round leaves is moneywort, or pennywort, fond of moist places, and I have always heard it's POISONOUS.

Though I ate a leaf once, thinking it was watercress, and it had no taste and I did not die.

It comes up in my bonsai pots when I overwater, while purslane thrives if I underwater, so they are my indicator weeds to keep me from doing damage with the hose to my baby trees.

WE GOT RAIN, life is good! See the moneywort coming up under the bonsai benches?

---Marcia Cash
Traveler in Thyme
http://www.travelerinthyme.com

GreenLady on tue 19 sep 06

Hi Marcia, is this what you are talking about?

http://images.google.com/images?q=moneywort&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Or this?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=pennywort&spell=1

GL

Traveler in Thyme wrote:

GreenLady on tue 19 sep 06

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/asian/pennywort.html

http://www.herbmed.org/Herbs/Herb95.htm

http://int.clarins.com/main.cfm?PlanteID=202

GL

Traveler in Thyme wrote: