Authors: Regel
Generally at least 40cm tall, sometimes to 60cm. Leaves 5-10mm wide. Flowers 6-8cm across and rather longer, the large falls pointing down and the equally large standards erect, ground colour cream to ivory with a prominent network of dark maroon veins, early summer. Russian Asia in the Tien Shan mountains, on rocky slopes at 1600-3800m. Variable in flower colour, e.g. var. concolor is purple with a few darker veins, leichtliniana is cream with a few veins and a very dark signal patch on the falls, while violacea is violet with darker veins.
