Phryma is a genus of flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae, native to temperate Asia and eastern North America.

[4] However, these species were generally not accepted, and populations in Asia and North America were usually treated as the single species Phryma leptostachya, being distinguished only at the rank of subspecies and variety.

In 2014, it was again proposed to separate Asian and North American populations into full species, P. oblongifolia and P. leptostachya respectively.

[citation needed] The genus Phryma has sometimes been classified in the family Verbenaceae,[6] 21st century research has placed it in the small family Phrymaceae, along with Mimulus (monkey flowers) and a small number of other genera which had formerly been in the Scrophulariaceae.

[7] As of April 2022[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]