Authors: L.
Bulb to 2.5cm across, of numerous closely-packed scales, with many small rice-grain bulbils around the base, sometimes with stolons. Stem 10-75cm high. Leaves in one to three whorls of five to seven, the upper alternate, lanceolate. Flowers one to eight, broadly bell-shaped or cup-shaped, black, brown or yellowish-green, foul-smelling and visited by blow-flies. Tepals 2-3cm long, with twelve raised lines inside and a narrowly oblong nectary. Style trifid, with recurved branches. Capsule angled but not winged. Japan, Kamchatka, Sakhalin and eastern Siberia, the Kurile Islands and Alaska to Washington State, in meadows and marshes, from sea level to alpine meadows in Honshu.
Joint Rock: Joint Rock Awards, Gothenburg Botanic Garden, 2 June 2016
