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Kniphofia × praecox; photograph (c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-06-25

Kniphofia × praecox Baker

Greater Red-hot-poker

Asphodelaceae · Ireland, Cape Provinces

A hybrid: K. bruceae × K. uvaria, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Kniphofia × praecox, also known as Kniphofia praecox or the greater red-hot poker (Afrikaans: Vuurpyl) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Kniphofia × praecox", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Kniphofia

Kniphofia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794. All species of Kniphofia are native to Africa. Common names include tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily and poker plant.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Kniphofia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIreland, Cape Provinces · introduced: Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Northern Provinces, Ecuador · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 43 km away. 355 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Kniphofia 22 in the reference

Kniphofia brachystachya Kniphofia brachystachya Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsKniphofia bruceae Kniphofia bruceae Dangle Poker Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van BerkelKniphofia caulescens Kniphofia caulescens Basotho Redhot Poker Photo: CC BY, Morten Ross Kniphofia citrina Lemon Poker Kniphofia ensifolia Kniphofia ensifolia Sword Poker Photo: CC BY-SA, Antoinette Eyssell KnoxKniphofia foliosa Kniphofia foliosa Ethiopian red hot poker Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandKniphofia galpinii Kniphofia galpinii Dwarf Salmon Poker Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloKniphofia gracilis Kniphofia gracilis Graceful Poker Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof GolikKniphofia hirsuta Kniphofia hirsuta Hairy Poker Photo: CC BY, Morten RossKniphofia laxiflora Kniphofia laxiflora Inxonya Photo: CC BY, Dr. Alexey YakovlevKniphofia linearifolia Kniphofia linearifolia Common Marsh Poker Photo: CC BY, Morten RossKniphofia northiae Kniphofia northiae Broad-Leafed Poker Photo: CC BY, Morten Ross all 23 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Kniphofia praecox subsp. praecox; Kniphofia praecox var. nobilis; Kniphofia uvaria var. praecox. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asphodelaceae
Described by
Baker
Native to
Ireland, Cape Provinces
Wild records
4 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 16 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (14 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 28 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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