Creeping jenniesare distributed in Southern Shaanxi, Sichuan and the southern provinces. They usually grow along the streams, the dark and moist regions beside the roads, and forests in hillside below 2300 meters. They usually bloom in March until May to July.

Creeping jenny is a kind of useful traditional medicine. It can clear away the heat and toxic materials, expel stones and is diuretic. It can also relax vascular smooth muscle. Creeping jenny is honored the invincible opponent of stones and can be used in the treatment of cholecystitis, gall-stone, lithiasis in urinary system, Jaundice hepatitis, edema, traumatic injuries, poisonous snake bites as well as mushroom and drug poisoning. By external application, it can cure scald and Suppurative inflammation.