Japan Flora: Bulbs broadly ovoid-globose, 4-8 cm. across; stems stout, erect, 1-2 m. long, purplish, white-woolly while young; leaves broadly linear to lanceolate, 5-18 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, sessile, with few fleshy scaly bulbils in axils; flowers odorless，4-20, orange-red, with darker spots inside, the tepals revolute, lanceolate, or the inner segments broadly lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, short-hairy on margin of the nectary groove; styles elongate, upwardly curved. July-Aug.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; commonly cultivated in gardens. Korea, Manchuria, and China.