Phlox plant named ‘Running With Scissors’

Abstract

A new cultivar of Phlox plant named, ‘Running With Scissors’, that is characterized by its a very vigorous, broad spreading plant habit that readily layers into a groundcover, its very large flowers 2.5 cm in diameter and medium violet pink in color and aging to light violet pink with irregular pigments, its flowers that produce a faint, sweet hay fragrance, its light, repeat bloom in autumn in some years, its flowers that cover 90% to 100% of the plant at peak bloom, and its distinctly bifid leaves with a deep cleft 6 mm in depth and width.

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