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US Plant Patent PP28679

Fashionably Early Crystal

Phlox plant named ‘Fashionably Early Crystal’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 1, 2036.

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 PP28679, the photograph of Fashionably Early Crystal printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28679, 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
PP28679
Filed
December 1, 2016
Granted
November 21, 2017
Expires
December 1, 2036
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique cultivar of garden phlox named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Crystal’ multi-stemmed, compact, slowly-spreading habit with bright-green, glossy, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are sweetly-fragrant, producing sweetly-fragrant, initially very light lavender-pink flower faces becoming white with light purple eye zones beginning the second week of June, continuing for about five weeks and repeating through mid-fall. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of hybrid phlox plant named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Crystal’, as herein described and illustrated, especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28679 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.