It has long blue green leaves, many flowers in spring, in shades of yellow and white.

Iris bucharica has a yellowish white bulb, about 2 cm in diameter,[2] with thin fleshy roots.

It is endemic to the Gissar Range, in the valleys of Surkhan-darya, Kafirnigan, Vakhsh, Ak-su and Kizyl-su rivers.

It is found at 5,000–6,000 ft (1,500–1,800 m), in pebble beds and gravelly slopes of the lower mountain zone.

[3] Iris bucharica is widely cultivated in temperate regions, and in the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The bulbs are planted in late summer or autumn, 5 cm (2.0 in) deep, in gravelly soils in full sun.

Like others of its kind it needs a period of warmth and dryness during the summer, to prevent the fleshy roots from rotting away.

[22] But it can be grown in a pot in a greenhouse, providing it is kept dry in summer and left out in the autumn rains.

It will increase by bulblets, naturalising quickly where growing conditions are favourable, allowing for the creation of drifts in borders or rock gardens.