White Cyclamen
White flower
Seen on Iron Mt. Trail 10/13/2021

These flowers were growing in a clump
There were flowers on stems
but there were no leaves...
(see explanation below)

Cyclamen hederifolium flowers, with their characteristic reflexed petals, appear well ahead of the leaves .

Cyclamen coum does the same thing, but a few months later. In both cases, the flower colour can vary widely covering a range from white through to dark pink, and shades of purple. Whatever the colour, once the act has been consummated, the flowers fade after pollination and each rapidly forms a seed pod.

The stalks corkscrew around the seed pod. Over time, this swells and when the pods are ready to split their stalks relax allowing the seeds to drop a little way from the mother plant. And it goes on. The seeds are covered in a sweet sticky substance that attracts insects and birds. deliberately or accidentally, these carry the seeds elsewhere ensuring the spread of the plant to pastures new

The leaves follow the flowers and so emerge either as deciduous trees are dropping their own foliage or when they are completely bare. that means light levels are relatively good at the right time of year in the shady places such as woodlands where cyclamen like to grow.

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Susan S. said:

According to Hitchcock (Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd ed), Cyclamen hederifolium is a European introduction occasionally escaping cultivation.
Oregon Flora has collections from several locations in Oregon, but not from Iron Mountain and the species is not on any of the plant lists for Iron Mountain on the Oregon Flora site.
The Burke Museum image collection shows that the species has been collected from several locations in Washington, too. It occurs in the Hoyt Arboretum among the Oregon locations