Fritillaria cirrhosa D.Don

Bulb of 2 scales, 1--2 cm in diam. Stem 15--60 cm. Leaves 7--11, opposite or sometimes also 3-or 4-whorled and alternate; leaf blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 4--12 cm × 3--5(--15) mm, apex often curved or cirrose. Inflorescence 1(--3)-flowered; bracts 3, apex curved or cirrose. Flower nodding, campanulate or narrowly so; pedicel much shorter than tepals. Tepals yellow or yellowish green, slightly or heavily spotted or tessellated with purple, usually oblong-elliptic, 3--5 × 1.2--1.8 cm; nectaries elliptic to ovate, 3--5 × 2--3 mm, projecting abaxially. Stamens 2--3 cm; filaments sometimes slightly papillose. Style 3-lobed; lobes 3--5 mm. Capsule narrowly winged; wings 1--1.5 mm wide. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Aug--Oct. 2 n = 24*.

It is a temperate plant. In Nepal they grow from 3000-4500 m altitude. The grow in exposed, alpine grassland. It grows in forests and alpine thickets and moist places in China between 3200-4600 m. It is often on limestone soils. It needs humus-rich, moisture retaining soil. It needs cool damp summers. It suits hardiness zones 4-9. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The roots are boiled or roasted and eaten. The female flower parts are chewed. Caution: Most fritillarias are poisonous if eaten.

Plants are grown from bulbs.