Description
Growth is easy in a well drained, sunny spot and the plant reliably makes large ball heads of light to dark purple on stems from 30 cm up to 60 or even 80 cm.
The flowers are long-lasting and the leaves are narrow, elliptic and shiny green, unlike many of the other ball-headed species.
In the wild this grows with Iris reticulata Kuh-e-Abr in the Elburz Mountains. This is one of Per Wendelbo’s discoveries described from Iran in 1966 and hardly seen since, probably as its vegetative increase is very slow.
