Japan Flora: Annual; stems absent or nearly so; leaves radical, rosulate, linear, 7-15 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, acuminate, minutely serrulate; peduncles axillary, 1-3 cm. long, terminated by a cylindrical spathe about 3.5 cm. long; flowers solitary within the spathe, sessile; sepals 3, linear, 6-10 mm. long, obtuse; petals 3, narrowly linear, about 14 mm. long; seeds numerous, oblong, smooth, obtuse at both ends. Oct.