Common Name: eastern sowbread
Family Name: Primulaceae
Distribution/Origin: Europe, Mediterranean Basin, Iran
Description:
It is a tuberous herbaceous perennial, growing to 5–8 cm, with rounded heart-shaped leaves and pink shell-shaped flowers with darker coloration at the base. Leaves are round or kidney-shaped to long heart-shaped. The color is all-silver, all-green, or silver variegated with a variably sized green hastate (arrowhead-shaped) or "Christmas tree" pattern and a green edge. The edge is smooth or gently toothed, but never angled and pointed as in Cyclamen hederifolium. Flowers are squat, with almost round petals, unlike any other group of cyclamen species. They bloom from winter to spring. The petals are magenta, pink, or white, with a darker blotch at the base. Below the blotch is a small white or pink "eye".
Notes:
It is valued in horticulture as groundcover, and for the flowers which bloom in winter and early spring.
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