Japan Flora: Bulbs few or solitary, lanceolate, the outer coat thick, netted-fibrous; leaves 3-4, linear, 3-5 mm. wide, flat, shorter than the scapes, the margin more or less uneven; scapes 15-40 cm. long; flowers rose-purple, about 4 mm. long, the pedicels 4-7 mm. long, the tepals narrowly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse, the midrib slighdy deeper colored on back; filaments about equal to or slightly longer than the tepals, the inner ones with a deltoid to ovate tooth on each side at base. July-Aug. Alpine meadows.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.). Kuriles, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, n. Korea, and e. Siberia.