Annual glabrous herb. Leaves all basal, oblong-lanceolate, 12-10 cm long, entire or coarsely toothed. Scapes several, bearing a long terminal dense cylindrical spike and many sessile lateral ones, 10-15 cm long. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, 2-bracteate. Outer bract liner-subulate, 1.5 times as long as the inner bract. Calyx funnel-shaped, tube glandular 10-ribbed in the lower part; limb equal to the tube, 5-lobed, lobes lavender; nerves 5, excurrent. Corolla pink.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

Type: A cultivated specimen of Central Asiatic province (LE).

Distribution: Soviet Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan. Cultivated in W. Pakistan.