Flowering stem up to 30-100-(120) cm, ribbed, leafy. Bulb ovate, 3-4 cm diam. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, up to 10-12 cm x 0.5-1.5 cm. Flowers 1-5 in umbel or raceme, 8-15 cm diam., erect, usually orange brick red in colour. V- mid-spring to mid-autumn, in St. Petersburg May-September. Fl - June. Fr - August (not every year). P - by seed and daughter bulbs. Does well in sunny places, endures light shade. In cultivation since 1728. Z 3.

Siberia, Far East (Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands), northwestern Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. Forest edges, meadows, sea coastal sandy slopes.