Leaf colourgreen, bronze or brown
Native range
- Albania
- Altay
- Austria
- Baltic States
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Central European Russia
- Czechia-Slovakia
- Denmark
- East European Russia
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Krym
- NW. Balkan Pen.
- Netherlands
- North Caucasus
- North European Russia
- Northwest European Russia
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- South European Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Türkiye-in-Europe
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- West Siberia
stem plant background midground Dutch street foreground Conservation status: LC
Round leaves like coins in pairs along a creeping stem. A garden pond plant that took to aquariums, undemanding and quick to soak up excess nitrate.
- Light
- medium–high
- Difficulty
- easy
- Temperature
- 4 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typestem plant
Growth ratemedium
Tolerates lightmedium – high
General hardness0 – 30 °dGH
Placementbackground, midground +2
Propagationcuttings
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Rounded leaves in opposite pairs along a soft stem that creeps rather than stands. Green in an ordinary tank, yellow-green under strong light; the golden form is brighter still and needs more light to keep its colour.
Keeping
Easy: no carbon dioxide needed, cool water is fine, growth is steady rather than explosive. It wants decent light — in the shade the stem stretches and the leaves shrink. It takes up a lot of nutrients from the water, which makes it a quiet indicator: when a tank is overfed, this plant grows fastest.
Placement
Anywhere, depending on trimming: pinned down and cut back it spreads along the front, left alone it climbs to the middle. It also grows out of the water in an open tank and can flower there.
Propagation
By cuttings: cut a piece of stem and plant it, or pull a dense clump apart and divide the roots.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1016 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
Swordtail GuppiesCobra GuppyBlood Red MollyButterflyfishRed Zebra CichlidJulii CorydorasRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraKenyi CichlidCuckoo CatfishGolden SwordtailHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus BrokopondoZebra Mbuna
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaSpined LoachMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMolly sphenopsBalloon MollyLyretail MollyMarble MollyHi-Fin PlatyHawaii PlatyBlue PlatyPintail PlatyBlack PlatyChocolate MollyMoonlight GouramiMelanotaenia parva
Will uproot it
These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.
Marble LoachPeacock EelForktail LoachGuntea LoachLong-nosed LoachHorseface LoachPearlscaleBlack Moor GoldfishShubunkinPainted PlecoFeatherfin SynodontisReddish Mystus CatfishBlue AcaraAulonocara maylandiAulonocara multicolorAulonocara OrchidGeophagus altifronsGeophagus winemilleriPearlscale CichlidPearl CichlidRedbelly CichlidRed-spotted CichlidChuco godmanniHaplochromis philanderRed ChromideJack Dempsey cichlid
Cultivars
The same plant with a different look: light, water and care are shared with the species.
Other varieties: Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea', Lysimachia nummularia Aurea, Lysimachia nummularia Topf, Lysimachia nummularia Aurea Topf, Lysimachia Nummularia Aurea