When does Cyclamen hederifolium bloom in Washington?

Most often in August. Across 187 dated, research-grade observations of Cyclamen hederifolium in Washington, the flowering season runs roughly August to October.

Peak August In flower 187 Examined 226 State Washington

Flowering 187 in flower of 226 examined

Proportion of examined Cyclamen hederifolium in Washington in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 5 0% 0% to 43%
Feb 1 4 too few examined
Mar 0 10 0% 0% to 28%
Apr 0 8 0% 0% to 32%
May 0 0 too few examined
Jun 0 1 too few examined
Jul 0 0 too few examined
Aug 12 12 100% 76% to 100%
Sep 68 68 100% 95% to 100%
Oct 84 84 100% 96% to 100%
Nov 20 27 74% 55% to 87%
Dec 2 7 29% 8% to 64%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Cyclamen hederifolium in Washington observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 187 of 226 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Washington found Cyclamen hederifolium in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Washington, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Washington. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.