Description
(syn. cretica)
A miniature species which grows happily outside here and which is fully hardy, although but may be best in a pot as it is one of the smallest, if not the smallest, of the species.
This has just two, narrow leaves and a short spike of up to 4 soft blue blooms, each with a white eye, in March. These flowers open out to flat-stars and this serves to separate them from the other Cretan species, albescens.
An endemic of the high snowy slopes in the White Mountains of Crete.