Cyclamen maritimumHildebr.

WFO wfo-0000631812 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-18 / obs. 205700539
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. b Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205700583
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186393111
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174864886
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174864849
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. f Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174285337
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107523735
Cyclamen maritimum, photographed by Olena V. Vakarenko
fig. h Olena V. Vakarenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182596814

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Cyclamen maritimum is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Türkiye CyprusEast Aegean Is.Türkiye
Native distribution of Cyclamen maritimum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 161 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.1 °C 8.3 °C 11.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.9 °C 30.9 °C 32.7 °C
Annual rainfall 658 mm 1,147 mm 1,383 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 20 mm 42 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 161 research-grade observations of Cyclamen maritimum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyclamen cyprograecum E.Mutch & N.Mutch
  • Cyclamen graecum subsp. anatolicum Ietsw.
  • Cyclamen pseudomaritimum Hildebr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.