Japan Flora: Bulbs slender; scapes 12-25 cm. long; leaves few, radical, linear, 10-20 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, subacute to obtuse, tapered below, the cauline 0-2, short; racemes simple or with 1 or 2 short branches, loosely few- flowered, 3-12 cm. long, the bracts narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, 3-25 mm. long; flowers about 10 mm. in diameter, pale yellowish green or purplish outside, the tepals ascending, spreading at anthesis, erect in fruit, 7-8 mm. long, 2.5- 4 mm. wide, oblong or narrowly rhombic-ovate, obtuse, the glands obcordate; capsules conical, narrowed above. Aug. Alpine zone.