1857 A. Gray 540 Rice Cut-grass..Wet places, common.
1948 Oct. 106 Leersia (rice cutgrass), Glyceria (mann grass), and Ranunculus (crowfoot)..are typical of the wet-meadow stage.
2005 L. Lawlor 87 Sharp tendrils of rice cutgrass tug my arms, reeds poke me in the face. Life boils over from hidden, unexpected places.