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US Plant Patent PP36444

Material Girl

Phlox plant named ‘Material Girl’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 26, 2044.

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 PP36444, the photograph of Material Girl printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36444, 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
PP36444
Filed
January 26, 2024
Granted
February 11, 2025
Expires
January 26, 2044
Assignee
STEWART BRIGITTA
Inventor
STEWART BRIGITTA

Abstract

A new and unique hybrid cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘Material Girl’ of medium to tall-height, multi-stemmed, upright habit. The foliage is lanceolate, dark-green, with good powdery mildew resistance on stiff stems. The new plant has fragrant fuchsia-purple flowers with slightly darker eyes 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. ‘Material 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 ‘Material Girl’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP36444 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.