Plant 8-16 cm. Corm flat-globose, 2-3 cm diam., tunic coardely netted, finely reticulate-fibrous. Leaves narrowly linear, 0.3-0.4 cm wide, appearing in autumn and grow by spring. Flowers bright violet, yellow in throat. Fl - September, October. Fr - early spring. Z 5 (4). New.

Crimea and the Mediterranean. On rocky slopes of hills, in steppe.