Plant 10-20 cm. Bulb widely ovoid, 1.5 cm diam. Leaves 2-3, elongated-spathulate, 1-2 cm wide. Raceme of 3-10 bright blue flowers. Pedicels of lower flowers twice as long as flowers. V - early spring (March-April) to mid summer (July in St. Petersburg). Fl - mid-spring for 2-3 weeks. Fr - a month later. P - by seed and daughter bulbs. Requires dry soil in the winter period. Grows in partial shade. Z 4. New.

Central Asia (western Pamiro Alay). On rocky slopes at 1,500-3,400 m.