Scape 10-30 cm. Bulb cordate, brown, 2 cm diam. Leaves 3-7, narrow, lanceolate, 15-20 cm x 0.3-0.5 cm. Flowers 0.5 cm long, perianth dark-violet with white declined tips. Terminal sterile flowers azure. V - from early spring to mid summer. Autumn generation of leaves (August-September) remains till July of next year. Fl - May. Fr - June. P - by seed and the daughter bulbs produced every year in large quantities.

The Caucasus, Central Asia, Central and southern Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East. Foothills, forests, grassy mountain slopes.