It is a perennial herb with thick roots, channelled leaves, and yellow flowers with hairy stamen filaments.

Bulbine bulbosa is a perennial herb that grows in tufts 27–75 cm (11–30 in) high with thick, fleshy roots and usually a bulb-like tuber.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Anthericum bulbosa in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

It grows in a wide range of habitats but usually in damp places in grassland, woodland and forest, sometimes at altitudes above 1,800 m (5,900 ft).

[10] The corms of mature plants are nutritious, containing calcium and iron, and were used as food by Aboriginal people,[11] who called it parm, puewan, and pike.