Japan Flora: Bulbs ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long; radical leaves linear, sessile, soft, smooth, rather fleshy, flat, slightly involute, gradually narrowed to the obtuse apex, 15-30 cm. long, 5-7(-9) mm. wide; scapes 15-25 cm. long; inflorescence bracts 2, the lower one 4-8 cm. long, the upper one shorter; flowers 3-10, umbellate, the pedicels 1-4 cm. long, the tepals linear-oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm. wide, obtuse; capsules subglobose, 3-angled, about 7 mm. long and as wide. Apr .-May.
Hokkaido, Honshu. Sakhalin, Kuriles, Korea, China, and e. Siberia to Europe.