Aloe ecklonis

A grass aloe, and the most widespread one in southern Africa. It runs along the Great Escarpment from the Eastern Cape through KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State and Mpumalanga into Lesotho and Eswatini. It has a stemless rosette of deciduous, grass-like leaves 30–40 cm long and dense, flat-topped heads of short, swollen, usually salmon-pink flowers. In the wild it dies back in winter, surviving frost and grass fires, and regrows with the summer rains.