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US Plant Patent PP31484

Eye Candy

Phlox plant named ‘Eye Candy’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 1, 2039.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP31484, the photograph of Eye Candy printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31484, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP31484
Filed
February 1, 2019
Granted
February 25, 2020
Expires
February 1, 2039
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A unique cultivar of Hybrid Spring Phlox named Phlox ‘Eye Candy’ characterized by multi-stemmed compact habit, winter-hardy, spreading plant with short, bright glossy-green, awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in mid-April and continuing for nearly five weeks on lightly branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are light lavender-pink with a large pronounced eye of dark wine purple. Petal apices are shallowly notched. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew, and the new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

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 Creeping Phlox plant named Phlox ‘Eye Candy’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31484 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.