Pink petal coloration toward apex in fine air-brushing-like spots. Petals open to a flat face and recurve slightly toward apex. Many flowers up to 22 cm across over a prolonged season having a pinwheel-color effect of lighter pink on the exposed petal edge and becoming darker clock-wise toward the overlapped petal edge, accented by deep pink veining and a darker red lustrous eye. Primarily tri-lobed foliage with very dark greyed-purple color over a large portion of the mound. Hardy perennial producing herbaceous mound with dense branching Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’ is a unique hardy herbaceous hibiscus with the following combined traits: TABLE 1 CULTIVAR Leaf color Flower color Habit Size (H × W) ‘Cherry dark green white, upright 145 cm × Cheesecake’ with purple magenta tips, mound 140 cm overtones veins, and eye ‘Mocha deep bronze- white with broad 120 cm × Moon’ green scarlet eye mound 170 cm ‘Starry dark greyed- white and mound 120 cm × Starry Night’ purple pink 120 cm pinwheel, scarlet eye ‘Summer dark pink, rose upright 160 cm × Storm’ burgundy veining, mound 160 cm foliage magenta eye ‘Turn of the medium green pink rose upright 120 cm × Century’ pinwheel, rose mound 110 cm eye Table 1 below shows further comparisons to similar cultivars. ‘Starry Starry Night’ has more foliage showing the darker greyed-purple coloration than all of the above cultivars and any cultivar known to the inventor. ‘Turn of the Century’ has more finely-dissected green foliage, smaller flowers with less veining and a more columnar plant habit with less branching. ‘Cherry Cheesecake’ has petals with more folding along veins and more magenta tinting at petal apex rather than on the side of the petal. ‘Summer Storm’ flowers for a longer period, the petals have less veining, and the habit is taller. ‘Kopper King’ has larger flowers, flowers for a shorter period, the petals have less veining, the foliage is not as dark, and the habit is larger and more open. 26,089 and ‘Turn of the Century’ (not patented). Other similar hibiscus include: ‘Kopper King’ U.S. 24,022, but the flower face of the new plant is flatter and not as cupped as ‘Small Wonders’ and the habit of the new plant is much larger mound. The most similar hibiscus in flower color known to the applicant is ‘Small Wonders’ U.S. The foliage color of ‘Starry Starry Night’ is very dark greyed-purple with generally tri-lobed foliage and occasional 5-lobed. Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’ differs from its parents as well as all other hardy herbaceous hibiscus known to the applicant in many traits. The resultant asexually propagated plants have been found to be stable and true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction. Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’ was first asexually propagated in 2013 by both stem tip cuttings and sterile tissue culture at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. Both parents have a complex mixture of species in them, most likely including the species: moscheutos and coccineus. 11, 2011 the specific seedling passed the initial trial in the summer of 2012. 11,857 (female pod parent) times Hibiscus ‘Midnight Marvel’ U.S. The new plant, originally labeled # 11-117-104, is a single seedling selection from a cross between Hibiscus ‘Crown Jewels’ U.S. The present invention relates to the new and distinct hardy, herbaceous, hibiscus plant, Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’ hybridized by the inventor on Jul. Variety denomination: ‘Starry Starry Night’. Botanical classification: Hibiscus hybrid (L.).
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