It has dark green glaucous leaves, a short thick stem and purple spring flowers.

Iris kuschakewiczii has a 1.5 cm (in diameter) bulb,[2] with a paper tunic-coating.

[6][7][5] It has a thick stem, which is between 3–5 cm long, hidden by the leaves, unbranched with 1-4 flowers.

[9] In 1958, Petr Petrovich Poljakov re-published it as Juno kuschakewiczii in Fl.

[15][16] In 1905, Iris kuschakewiczii was found in Turkestan,[6] on the northern foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains of Central Asia.

[3][7][5] It can be found on gravelly and rocky slopes, on the red-clay hills of Kazakhstan (on the north-western spurs of the Tien Shan).

[2][4] It is also found in the Ala Archa National Park (25 km from the capital of Bishkek) of Kyrgyzstan.

[17] It is fairly easy to grow in cultivation, within an alpine house or bulb frame,[3] it does not need much moisture in summer.