Baboon Onion

Babiana hypogea

Inclusion rationale

Why did we include this species on our website? Because it was mentioned in the following source(s):

• Conservation value of the Egoli Granite Grassland, an endemic grassland in Gauteng, South Africa
• Field Guide to The Wildflowers of Witwatersrand & Pretoria, including Magaliesberg and Suikerbosrand

Features data

The following sources have provided data on features for this species.

Source document	Features
Conservation value of the Egoli Granite Grassland, an endemic grassland in Gauteng, South Africa May 22, 2026, 11:11 p.m.	Forb Egoli Granite Grassland
Field Guide to The Wildflowers of Witwatersrand & Pretoria, including Magaliesberg and Suikerbosrand May 22, 2026, 11:14 p.m.	Rocky habitat Semi-shade Sun Forb Perennial Soil: sandy Gauteng Color data Flowering data

Photo credits

You can see the credits underneath each photo of the species pages as well. Credits, in order of appearance:

• (c) Ricus Nel, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ricus Nel source
• (c) franceschase, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo source
• (c) Antoinette Eyssell Knox, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Antoinette Eyssell Knox source
• (c) chrisjgvn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) David Hoare, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by David Hoare source
• (c) David Hoare, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by David Hoare source
• (c) jean_s, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jean_s source
• (c) Ryan Tippett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ryan Tippett source
• (c) Nick Helme, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nick Helme source
• (c) Nick Helme, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nick Helme source