Soldaditos

Family: Tropaeolaceae<br>
Little soldiers, Three-coloured Indian cress<br>
Three-coloured Indian cress has thin, straggly stems growing from a reddish coloured root tuber and extending up to 2 or 3 metres (6 ft 7 in or 9 ft 10 in). The leaves are peltate (with the stalk in the centre), nearly circular with five or six deeply cut lobes. The numerous flowers are borne singly on long wiry stalks growing from the axils of the leaves. They are narrowly funnel-shaped and about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) long. The five sepals are red, orange or yellow tipped with a purple band, and extending backwards in a red spur. The small, greenish-yellow rounded petals have a clawed base. The sepals turn brown after the flowers fall and enclose the two or three, dark brown seeds.<br>
The tubers are well buried and are hardy down to a temperature of about −8 °C (18 °F) and can tolerate short periods of snow cover.<br>
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Hierba trepadora perenne, muy polimorfa, cuyos tallos alcanzan una longitud de hasta 4m. Hojas alternas, digitadas de 1,5-2cm de diámetro, compuestas por 5 foliolos lanceolados. Flores solitarias con pedúnculos de 2-3cm; cáliz tubular de color púrpura con amarillo y violeta, presenta un espolón largo, corola compuesta por 5 pétalos desiguales de color amarillo. Estambres 8. El fruto es un cápsula tricoca.