Common name:
Sowbread
Family:
Scientific name:
Cyclamen hederifolium
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered locations across southern England and Wales; an introduced species, originally in gardens
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Woodland
Flowers:
The pale pink corolla has a short tube and five much longer (up to 25 mm) lobes, which are fully reflexed, and darker in colour at the base. Flowers are pendent hence the lobes are angled upwards. Flowers form singly at the top of long, slender, leafless stalks
Leaves:
Hairless, long-stalked, ovate to cordate, up to 8 cm long, dark green with whitish markings, mostly growing after the flowering stage
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★