Lilium pumilum

Lilium pumilum, the coral lily or Siberian lily, is a small bulbous perennial of the Liliaceae family native to northeastern China, Mongolia, the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula, where it grows on dry grassy hillsides, rocky slopes and open pine forest from 400 to 2600 m. The plant arises from a small ovoid bulb 2–3 cm in diameter composed of fleshy white scales and produces a slender erect unbranched stem 20–60 cm tall. The numerous alternate leaves are linear and grass-like, 5–10 cm long and only 1–3 mm wide, scattered along the upper stem. From early to midsummer the plant bears one to several nodding turk's-cap flowers on slender pedicels; the six strongly recurved tepals are a vivid scarlet-red to coral colour, unspotted or sparsely spotted, with bright orange anthers held below on long pollen-bearing filaments. The fruit is a small erect oblong capsule.