Phryma
(a Linnaean name of unknown meaning; said to be of American origin). Lopseed. SYN. Leptostachya. ORD. Verbenaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a hardy, herbaceous perennial, of no great horticultural merit. It thrives in almost any soil. Increased by division; or by seeds, sown in the open ground, in spring.
P. Leptostachya (Leptostachya). fl. purplish, inconspicuous, sessile, in much-elongated spikes, each in the axil of a setaceous bract, and subtended by a pair of minute bractlets, at length strictly reflexed. August. l. ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrated; lower ones on long petioles. h. 2ft. to 4ft. Central Asia, North America, &c., 1802.