Eragrostis superba or saw-tooth lovegrass is a tufted perennial reaching 1 m in height.
The plumes become 30 cm long. This grass flowers from late winter to autumn. The seeds are heart-shaped, flattened with saw-toothed margins.
The species distribution is in the northeast of South Africa, the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and the provinces north of the Vaal River. This plant was photographed in the Rhenosterspruit Nature Conservancy in what is known as Egoli Granite Grassland.
The habitat is sandy or stony flats, the plants often growing in disturbed places, also in clayey soils. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century.
The plant is a quick-growing, palatable grass used as a drought resistant pasture and to resow bare patches of veld (Van Oudtshoorn, et al, 1991; http://redlist.sanbi.org).