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US Plant Patent PP25884

Violet Pinwheels

Phlox plant named ‘Violet Pinwheels’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 15, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 24, 2033. This patent earned 112 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25884, the photograph of Violet Pinwheels printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25884, 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
PP25884
Filed
December 24, 2013
Granted
September 8, 2015
Expires
April 15, 2034
Assignee
CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES R
Inventor
AULT JAMES R

Abstract

A new cultivar of Phlox plant, ‘Violet Pinwheels’, that is characterized by its low spreading mounded plant habit, its blooming period for four to six weeks from early to mid-April to mid-May, followed by a light repeat blooming period from August through October, in northern Illinois, its slightly cupped flowers with turned in petals that are obovate in shape with a strongly constricted base and a broad rounded tip with a slight terminal notch, its flowers that at anthesis are vivid purple in color with light violet eyes and basal pairs of violet striae and age to a vivid violet color, its soft, needle-like foliage that is dark green in color, and its resistance to powdery 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 Phlox plant named ‘Violet Pinwheels’ as herein illustrated and described.

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