Mat-forming shortly rhizomatous evergreen plant. Leaves rounded ovate, 5-15 (25) cm, glabrous, long-petiolate. Scape 5-10 cm. Flowers solitary, large, pink-lilac. V - early spring, the second generation of leaves mid-summer. Fl - May for 3-5 weeks. Fr -July. Well suited to the rock garden. Z 4.

Caucasus (Greater Caucasus, Kachetia, Dagestan, eastern Transcaucasus). On moist rocks in montane forests.