Tropaeolum peregrinum

Plant Characteristics
Habit		vine-climber
Height:	⇕	8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Width:	⇔	8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Bloom:	❀	early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun
Features:	✓	flowers
USDA Zones:		9 to 11
Flower features:	❀	orange, yellow

Scientific Names
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Tropaeolum peregrinum (canary creeper, canarybird flower, canarybird vine, or canary nasturtium) is a species of Tropaeolum native to western South America in Peru and possibly also Ecuador.^[1]^[2]

It is a climbing plant growing to 2.5 m high by scrambling over other vegetation. The leaves are 2–5 cm diameter, palmately lobed with three to seven (mostly five) lobes; they are subpeltate, with the petiole attached within the leaf (not at the edge), though near the edge. The flowers are 2–4 cm diameter, with five frilled petals, bright pale yellow (canary-coloured, hence the English name), often with red spots at the base of the petals, eight stamens, and a 12 mm nectar spur at the rear.^[2]

It is widely grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the world.

Read about Tropaeolum peregrinum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tropaeolum peregrinum, Linn. (T. canariense, Hort.). Canary- Bird Flower. Annual, tall-climbing; glabrous: lvs. peltate near the margin, cordate-orbicular, divided to about the middle into 5 lobes, which are mostly apiculate: fls. canary-yellow, odd and very irregular; spur green, hooked; 2 upper petals erect and large, obovate-clawed, much fringed; 3 lower petals small and narrow and ciliate. Supposed to be native of Peru and Ecuador. B.M. 1351. B.R. 718. G.W. 10, p. 497—An excellent quick-growing vine, although the fls. can scarcely be called showy. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network: Tropaeolum peregrinum
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.

[grin-1] Germplasm Resources Information Network: Tropaeolum peregrinum

[rhs-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.

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