US Plant Patent PP28680
Fashionably Early Princess
Phlox plant named ‘Fashionably Early Princess’
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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP28680
- 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 Princess’ multi-stemmed, dense, slowly-spreading habit with bright-green, glossy, thick-substance, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are sweetly-fragrant, light fuchsia-pink, in many-flowered corymbs beginning very early in early June, continuing for about five weeks and repeating through mid-fall or frost. 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 Princess’, as herein described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.