Phlox plant named ‘Material Girl’

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.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct cultivar of hybrid  Phlox  plant named ‘Material Girl’, as herein described and illustrated.