Japan Flora: Bulbs broadly ellipsoidal, 25-35 cm. in diameter; leaves appearing in autumn, narrowly strap-shaped, deep green, 30-40 cm. long, 6- 8 mm. wide; scapes 30-50 cm. long; umbels terminal, several-flowered, the involucral bracts broadly linear to lanceolate, thinly membranous, 2-3 cm. long; flowers red, inodorous, the pedicels 6-15 mm. long; perianth-tube 6-8 mm. long, the segments narrowly oblanceolate, about 4 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, prominently recurved, undulate on margin; stamens 7-8 cm. long, much exserted. Sept Around cultivated fields and meadows in lowlands and hills;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus and China.