Rhizome short. Scape 8-10 cm when flowering, 15-25 cm fruiting. Leaves in rosette, 4-6 x 8-10 cm, oblong-obovate, with short petiole, or sessile. Flowers 5-7, large, purple-lilac, in in umbel-like inflorescnce. V - early spring to mid autumn. Fl - mid spring (May in St. Petersburg). Fr - July. P - by seed and division. Very well suited to the rock garden, and for spring decoration. Z 4. New.

Central Asia (Pamiro Alay). On grassy slopes.