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US Plant Patent PP36677

Pink Lightning

Phlox plant named ‘Pink Lightning’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 16, 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 PP36677, the photograph of Pink Lightning printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36677, 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
PP36677
Filed
April 16, 2024
Granted
May 13, 2025
Expires
April 16, 2044
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox plant named ‘Pink Lightning’ is characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, highly branched peduncles, with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in mid-July and continues for up to about six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles, and completely covers the top of the plant in peak season. Flower petals are bright deep pink with a white starburst eye. The new plant shows excellent powdery mildew resistance. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, 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 Tall Phlox, Phlox plant named ‘Pink Lightning’, as herein described and illustrated.

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