| Scientific Name: | Hypoxis baurii |
| Common Name: | starflower, red-star |
| Family Name: | Hypoxidaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Rock garden, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Bog, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glaucous, Pubescent, Linear, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clumping perennial; leaves basal, linear, 15-30cm long x 2-5mm wide, central fold, pubescent; flowers star-shaped, six petals, pink or white, Jun-Jul. | |