Phyla (genus)
Phyla is a genus of eustarid plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. The name is derived from the Greek word φυλή, meaning "tribe", and most likely refers to the tightly clustered flowers or the spreading, mat-like growth. Members of the genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit. Species once classified in the genus Lippia may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb, are used in cooking.
Selected species
- Phyla canescens Greene - hairy frogfruit/fogfruit
- Phyla chinensis Lour.
- Phyla cuneifolia Greene - wedgeleaf frogfruit/fogfruit, wedgeleaf
- Phyla dulcis Moldenke, - Aztec sweet herb, honeyherb, hierba dulce, tzopelic-xihuitl
- Phyla fruticosa Kennedy - diamondleaf frogfruit/fogfruit
- Phyla × intermedia Moldenke - intermediate frogfruit/fogfruit
- Phyla lanceolata Greene - lanceleaf frogfruit/fogfruit
- Phyla nodiflora Greene - turkey tangle, sawtooth frogfruit/fogfruit
- Phyla stoechadifolia Small - southern frogfruit/fogfruit