Phryma

Phryma
Phryma leptostachya var. asiatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Lamiales
Family:Phrymaceae
Genus:Phryma
L.
Species: P. leptostachya
Binomial name
Phryma leptostachya
L.

Phryma leptostachya, or lopseed, is a perennial herb.[1] The genus Phryma is native to eastern North America (roughly, everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains[2]) and Asia (Japan, Nepal, India and West Pakistan[3]), and consists of either one or two species, depending on whether the American and Asian species are considered separate or not.[4]

The plant stands about 0.3 to 1.0 meters tall, and the inflorescences bear a number of small (4 mm) tube-shaped white to pink flowers.[1]

Although it has sometimes been classified in the family Verbenaceae,[1] 21st century research has placed it in a small family (Phrymaceae) along with Mimulus (monkey flowers) and a small number of other genera which had formerly been in the Scrophulariaceae.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Phryma leptostachya". Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. ↑ "Phryma leptostachya". PLANTS. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  3. ↑ "Phryma leptostachya". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  4. 1 2 Olmstead, R. G. (2003). "Whatever happened to the Scrophulariaceae?" (PDF). Fremontia. 30–2: 13–22. Page 22.
  • "Phryma leptostachya". Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database. Retrieved 2008-01-08.


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