Tropaeolum can be annuals or perennials, bushy, trailing or climbing by twining stems, with simple or palmately lobed leaves and showy funnel-shaped flowers with five long-clawed petals and often a spur
Alaska Series are bushy, spreading annuals to 30cm tall, with rounded leaves speckled and splashed with creamy-white, and single flowers to 6cm wide, in shades of cream, yellow, orange and mahogany-red