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Cyclamen repandum
Spring sowbread is a small tuberous cyclamen from southern Europe that flowers in late spring with slender-petaled pink or white blooms above heart-shaped leaves. Grow it in partial shade in free-draining soil and keep the tuber dry in summer when the plant is dormant.
Cyclamen repandum, the spring sowbread, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to southern Europe and some Mediterranean islands. It is the most widespread of a group of cyclamens (genus Cyclamen subgenus Psilanthum) with wide, heart-shaped leaves, often coarsely toothed or lobed, and late spring-blooming flowers with long, slender petals.
Cyclamen repandum is a deciduous plant that has a hardiness rating of H4 (This refers to the UK growing conditions, H4 being hardy through most of the UK and can withstand temperatures down to −5 to −10 °C (23 to 14 °F)). It requires partial shade and can grow in chalk, clay, sand or loam. It can grow in any pH level; acid, alkaline or neutral. C. repandum can grow to an ultimate height of 10 cm (3.9 in) and can take anywhere between 2–5 years to reach this height.
The subspecies C. repandum subsp. repandum (wavy-edged cyclamen) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
