Empodium gloriosum is a perennial flowering plant and tuber-forming geophyte belonging to the genus Empodium. The species is endemic to the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Empodium gloriosum being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Empodium plicatum
- Empodium veratrifolium
- Pauridia flaccida
- Pauridia serrata
- Pauridia maryae
- Empodium flexile
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Hypoxidaceae
- Genus
- Empodium
- Species
- Empodium gloriosum
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