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US Plant Patent PP31272

Purple Sprite

Phlox plant named ‘Purple Sprite’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 28, 2038.

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 PP31272, the photograph of Purple Sprite printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31272, 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
PP31272
Filed
November 28, 2018
Granted
December 24, 2019
Expires
November 28, 2038
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique cultivar of hybrid creeping phlox named Phlox ‘Purple Sprite’ multi-stemmed, short, upright, slowly-spreading habit with clean, green, glossy, lanceolate to linear leaves with exceptional powdery mildew resistance. Flowers are bright purple with small near-white eye and dark purple markings nearly covering the top of the plant in peak flowering season about one week later than typical Phlox subulata . ‘Purple Sprite’ is especially useful as a containerized plant and for the flower garden.

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 Phlox ‘Purple Sprite’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31272 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.