Cyclamen creticum, commonly known as Cretan sowbread, is a small perennial herb endemic to Crete and Karpathos.

[1] The name of the subgenus, Psilanthum, comes from Ancient Greek: psilós "bare" and ánthos "flower".

They tend to grow on rocky places, stream and river banks, gullies, or under bushes.

Leaf - Heart-shaped, cordate leaves, often coarsely toothed, of dark-green color with a red-purple back.

[4] Cyclamen creticum rarely self-fertilizes due to approach herkogamy, where the stigma is above the level of the anthers.