Phlox plant named ‘Violet Pinwheels’

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.

It is claimed: 
     
       1. A new and distinct cultivar of  Phlox  plant named ‘Violet Pinwheels’ as herein illustrated and described.