Authors: Boiss.
Usually 15-30cm tall but sometimes much more. Mature leaves up to 8mm wide by 40cm long. Flowers about 6cm long, deep yellow or violet or bicoloured, with some brownish or purple markings, spring. Afghanistan to Pakistan, in moist grassy places which dry out in summer. Difficult to grow to flowering size in the alpine house and worth trying outside with perhaps some protection from rain when dormant.
