We planted this little cyclamen in the 1980’s, in the lawn outside the dining room of  the house (built 1895.) In the spring it puts up silver and green mottled leaves, which then disappear as the plant goes completely dormant until fall, when -sometimes- these delicate flowers appear. The leaves in the picture are of violets and sweet woodruff, which bloom in the spring.

Cyclamens (of which there are several dozen species) are native to the Middle East and areas of Europe and North Africa. They have naturalized in Ireland and Oregon.