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US Plant Patent PP36599

Fancy Girl

Phlox plant named ‘Fancy Girl’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 13, 2043.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 25, 2043. This patent earned 141 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP36599, the photograph of Fancy Girl printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36599, 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
PP36599
Filed
July 25, 2023
Granted
April 15, 2025
Expires
December 13, 2043
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique hybrid cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘Fancy Girl’ of medium-height, multi-stemmed, upright habit. Foliage is lanceolate, medium-green, with good powdery mildew resistance on stiff stems. The new plant has Soft pink flowers with darker pink star-shaped center and near-white halo that are produced on large heads of branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning mid-July and continuing and reblooming for about six weeks through late summer. ‘Fancy Girl’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

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 Phlox plant named ‘Fancy Girl’, as herein described and illustrated.

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