Plant 20-40 cm. Leaves 3-4, grey green with brown-violet stripes. Flower 5-8 cm long, cup-shaped or elongated, raspberry red, grey tinged outside with bright margin. Filaments and anthers short, black. Basal blotch elongated, yellow-bordered. V - early spring to beginning of summer. F - March-April (in St. Petersburg May). Fr - June. P - by daughter bulbs and seed. Good for group planting and for cut flowers. Z 4.

Central Asia (northwestern Pamiro Alay, Kopet-Dag) and Iran. Clay and stony slopes in foothills.