Flowering stem 100-150 cm, leafy. Leaves rounded heart-shaped, palmately lobed. Leaves and stem hairy. Inflorescence 20-50 cm long, sparsely branched. Flowers large, 1.6-2.5 cm long, spur 3 cm long, velvet-like, cornflower blue. V - early spring to early autumn. Fl - June-July for one month. Fr - August. P - by seed, flowering the year after sowing. Requires a sunny place on well-drained sandy loam. Z 4. New.

Siberia (Altay). In meadow steppe, on slopes, on thin soils.