Phlox plant named ‘Crater Lake’

Abstract

A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Crater Lake’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, linear to awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to six weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals of newly opened flowers are cool indigo-purple with a small notch and the tips of the petals. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse. 1. Vigorous plants of dense, slowly-spreading habit, spreading by rooting stems, producing short, clean, glabrous, bright-green, narrow leaves; 2. Multiple heavily-branched stems produce branched panicles; 3. Flower beginning in late-April and continuing for up to six weeks, in cool conditions, completely covering plant at peak flowering; 4. Flowers of cool indigo-purple and with small notches at the tip of the petals; 5. Plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hybrid Creeping  Phlox, Phlox  plant named ‘Crater Lake’, as herein described and illustrated.