细叶北韭 xi ye bei jiu

Bulb solitary or paired, cylindric-conical, 0.7--1 cm wide; tunic grayish brown, reticulate. Leaves usually shorter than scape, 0.5--1.5 mm wide, semiterete, margin smooth. Spathe persistent; beak very short. Umbel usually hemispheric, many flowered. Pedicels subequal, very slender, 2--3(or more) × as long as perianth, bracteolate. Perianth pink or pale pink; segments with dark red midvein, broadly linear or narrowly lanceolate, 4--5 × 1--1.5 mm, apex obtusely triangular. Filaments 1.5--2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones broadened at base, entire or with 1 or 2 teeth on each side. Ovary subglobose, with concave nectaries at base. Style long exserted; stigma punctiform. Fl. Jun. 2 n = 16, 32.

Mostly dry slopes, cliffs; 400--2000 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia].