Empodium is a genus from Southern Africa in the Hypoxidaceae family that is similar to Hypoxis and Spiloxene. The rootstock is a corm and the flowers are star shaped, yellow inside and green on the outside. Leaves are lance shaped. Many of the species bloom in the fall before their leaves appear.
Empodium plicatum has yellow flowers with pleated leaves that are dry or emerging at flowering. It grows in clay and loamy flats or lower slopes in seasonally damp sites in the Cape province of South Africa and blooms in the autumn. Photo by Bill Dijk.
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