| English | gardener's-garters | | | 1 | Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada |
| English | reed Canary grass | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | ribbon grass | | | 1 | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
| English | variegated grass | | | 1 | 1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. |
| French | alpiste roseau | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| French | chiendent-ruban | | | 2 | Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France. |
| French | phalaris roseau | | | 2 | FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. |
| French | roseau | | | 2 | FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. |
| French | roseau panaché | | | 2 | Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France. |
| German | Rohrglanzgras | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Italian | falaride arundinacea | | | 2 | International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. |
| Japanese Rōmaji | kusa-yoshi | | | 2 | Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). |
| Portuguese | caniço-malhado | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | hierba cinta | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | pasto cinto | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Swedish | rörflen | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Korean | galpul | | | 2 | Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:116. |