Lilium avenaceum Fischer ex Regel.

Bulb subglobose, 2--2.5 cm in diam.; scales white, oblong-lanceolate, 1--2 cm × 3--4 mm, articulate. Stem 30--75(--100) cm, smooth, rarely slightly papillose proximally. Leaves usually in a whorl of 7--12(--20) plus a few scattered, lanceolate-oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 5--12(--17) × 1.5--4 cm, glabrous, rarely slightly scabrous at margin, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers solitary or 2--4(--10) in an umbel or raceme, nodding, rarely to ascending, not fragrant. Tepals strongly revolute, apricot-colored to bright red, with black spots, lanceolate, (3--)3.5--4(--4.5) cm × 5--10 mm, rather thick, apex papillose; nectaries not papillose. Stamens shorter than tepals; filaments glabrous; anthers ca. 1 cm. Ovary ca. 1 cm. Style sometimes thickened toward apex. Capsule obovoid, 1.5--2 cm, 3-ribbed. Fl. Jul--Aug. 2 n = 24*.

Forests, subalpine grasslands, limestone and serpentine areas. Zhejiang [Japan, Korea (Cheju Island), Russia (Kamchatka, Kurile Islands, Sakhalin)].