I am guessing that the Variegated Reed grass you are referring to is Calamagrostis 'Overdam' or 'Avalanche'. The Phalaris (ribbon grass) spreads underground. Pull up some of the outside leaves and see how they connect to the parent. If you can't pull them up because they are too close, then its probably the nicely behaved Calamagrostis. If you can tell its a traveller, then you have the very poorly behaved ribbon grass. Also, I think that ribbon grass is more white than green and the Calamagrostis 'Overdam' is more green than white. Phalaris started blooming awhile ago and the tips of the leaves are often pink. The blooms of Calamagrostis are just starting to push their way up out of the foliage. Go to Google Images for a easy way to find pictures of both.

here are few more photos these are in my backyard. seem like the same plant. 1st one is 7 inches tall and the other 2 photos seems like the same plant but fully matured.

so it looks like I will be received some bad advice...before i was actually watering just right, and now I'm underwatering. We don't know what information you were given nor do we know what has changed...because you refuse to answer the questions posed a few days ago. "Over watering" is a flimsy term. It means different things to different people. I water my lawn for 8 hours. Some would say that is over watering, but that's only 1 inch from my sprinkler. It still looks like you are watering lightly every day and that's wrong. There was a writer from El Paso earlier this summer with a similar appearing lawn. She changed to deep and infrequent watering and solved her problem. Here is a picture demonstrating the difference between light daily watering and deep and infrequent watering. This is Kentucky bluegrass from SE PA, but the appearance is similar with properly selected grasses in the south. Yours looks like the shallow and infrequent watering in the rest of the neighborhood. I can take you around my neighborhood in Bandera and show you the same thing on bermuda and St Augustine, but this picture really has it all in spectacular detail. Thanks to morpheuspa for posting the picture. My oscillator sprinkler on full sweep takes 8 hours to fill the can. Every sprinkler system is different, so you have to measure your own.

Sorry Dave, I read that when I purchased some Torch Liles last year. I'll look my notes over to try to find that. Here's a lucky cross I make last year of Crosby's Prolific and an unknown small hybrid I had in flower at the same time. All three came from the same seed pod. And now in their own pots to see what they develop into. The largest one looks similar to it's parent Crosby's Prolific. Other two show promise.