diff --git a/meshterm/ui/region_editor.py b/meshterm/ui/region_editor.py
index ec1ec97..5012490 100644
--- a/meshterm/ui/region_editor.py
+++ b/meshterm/ui/region_editor.py
@@ -270,9 +270,15 @@ def _flood_text(row: RegionRow) -> Text:
 
 
 def _row_note(row: RegionRow, table: RegionTable) -> str:
-    """The NOTE lane: what the row *is* beyond its flag — unscoped, home, default."""
+    """The NOTE lane: what the row *is* beyond its flag — unscoped, home, default.
+
+    The wildcard's ``^`` is not a home: the firmware parks the home mark on ``*`` when no
+    region has been made home, so ``*^`` reads *no home region set*, and the note says so
+    (``unscoped · no home``, short enough to stay whole in the 72-column lane) rather than
+    leaving the mark's one meaning there unsaid.
+    """
     if row.wildcard:
-        return "unscoped floods"
+        return "unscoped · no home" if row.home else "unscoped floods"
     notes = []
     if row.home:
         notes.append("home")
diff --git a/tests/test_region_admin.py b/tests/test_region_admin.py
index acc84b4..75bd791 100644
--- a/tests/test_region_admin.py
+++ b/tests/test_region_admin.py
@@ -827,3 +827,14 @@ def tui_ctx(tmp_path: Path):  # noqa: ANN201
     ctx.ui = TuiUi(TuiSession())
     yield ctx
     ctx.repo.close()
+
+
+def test_the_wildcard_row_says_when_no_home_region_is_set() -> None:
+    """``*^`` is the firmware parking its home mark on the wildcard: no home region set."""
+    from meshterm.ui.region_editor import _row_note
+
+    unset = parse_region_dump("*^ F\n lakeside F\n")
+    assert _row_note(unset.rows[0], unset) == "unscoped · no home"
+    homed = parse_region_dump("* F\n lakeside^ F\n")
+    assert _row_note(homed.rows[0], homed) == "unscoped floods"
+    assert _row_note(homed.rows[1], homed) == "home"