US Plant Patent PP32990
Crater Lake
Phlox plant named ‘Crater Lake’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 30, 2040.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP32990
- Filed
- September 30, 2020
- Granted
- April 20, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2040
- Assignee
- HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Crater Lake’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, linear to awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to six weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals of newly opened flowers are cool indigo-purple with a small notch and the tips of the petals. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse. 1. Vigorous plants of dense, slowly-spreading habit, spreading by rooting stems, producing short, clean, glabrous, bright-green, narrow leaves; 2. Multiple heavily-branched stems produce branched panicles; 3. Flower beginning in late-April and continuing for up to six weeks, in cool conditions, completely covering plant at peak flowering; 4. Flowers of cool indigo-purple and with small notches at the tip of the petals; 5. Plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox, Phlox plant named ‘Crater Lake’, as herein described and illustrated.
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