Kniphofia (Red hot poker, Torch lily, Poker plant) is a genus of plants in the family Asphodelaceae that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Some species have been commercially used for horticultural use and are commonly known for their bright, rocket-shaped flowers. These plants produce spikes of brightly-coloured, hanging, red-to-orange flowers. This gives names such as “torch” and “red hot poker” to many of them.

Kniphofia leucocephala, commonly known as White Wetland Poker, is an extremely rare South African endemic species found exclusively in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal growing in wetlands in low lying coastal grassland, in moist, black, sandy clay soil. From June to November it bears eye-catching white/orange flowers.