The first one is a annual ryegrass grown mostly in the south in the winter. It is seeded in the fall to give green grass over the winter. Germinates real fast and cattle love it.
The second one is a perennial ryegrass that will come back every year. Mixed in with other grass seed sold in bags because it has fast germination. It is also a cool season grass that will die in the summer heat of the deep south.
The third one is not really a grass. This is rye grain much like wheat. It is a annual grown for its grain crop. One of its best benefits is weed control, which winter rye excels at due to that horticultural super power known as "allelopathy," i.e., the ability to inhibit the germination of the seeds of competing plants. This can work as a disadvantage if you use it as a cover crop and then try to plant other seed right behind it. In a cover crop situation if you time your cutting it will come back. If you cut it to early before it goes to seed it will regrow trying to produce a crop (its main objective in life) If you cut it late after it has gone to seed without harvesting the crop it will reseed itself.
It sounds like you have the third rye cereal grain growing and it has reseeded itself.
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