Ornithogalum triflorum Ledebour, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 5: 529. 1815; Gagea triflora (Ledebour) Schultes & J. H. Schultes.

Plants 15--30 cm tall. Bulb ca. 6 mm in diam. Basal leaf 1, narrowly linear, 1--1.5 mm wide; cauline leaves 1--3(or 4), basal one narrowly lanceolate, 3.5--7 cm × 4--6 mm. Inflorescence 2--4-flowered. Tepals white, greenish veined, linear to oblanceolate, 1--1.2 cm × 1.7--2.2 mm. Stamens ca. 1/2 as long as tepals. Style 3--4 mm; stigma capitate, indistinctly 3-lobed. Capsule obovoid, 3-angled, ca. 1/3 as long as enlarged, persistent tepals. Seeds globose. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul.

Thickets, grassy slopes, hillsides along ravines. Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi [Japan, Korea, Russia].