English: Lovegrass; Canegrass.
Use: livestock fodder; ornamental; breads on the Horn of Africa, Ethiopian injera and Somalian laxoox, from Eragrostis teff; Eragrostis cynosuroides for pūjā rites in the Hindu temple at Karighatta; Eragrostis bahiensis is a hyperaccumulator of caesium-137;
Eragrostis curvula to prevent soil erosion.
Botany: seeds high nutritional value, very tiny