plant named ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’

Latin name of the genus and species:

Variety denomination: ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’.

The newcultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor, in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. The objective of the breeding program was to produce newvarieties with improved performance in open field conditions and produce cut flowers suitable for transport and sale. The open-pollination resulting in this new variety was made during 2018.

The seed parent is the unpatented, variety of‘Snoho Jojo’. The pollen parent is unidentified. Seed from ‘Snoho Jojo’ was collected in 2018 and grown in a cultivated garden area in 2019. ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ was intentionally selected from the seedlings that resulted based on the criteria of stem length and strength, upright growth habit, inflorescence attachment, ray floret count, and inflorescence color.

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar was first performed by vegetative cuttings by the inventor in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in the Spring of 2020 and has shown that the unique features of this cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

The cultivar ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, day length, and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ as a new and distinctcultivar:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ are similar to plants of the seed parent, in some horticultural characteristics, however, plants of the new cultivar ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ differ in the following;

The pollen parent cannot be identified with certainty.

Plants of the new cultivar ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ are comparable to the cultivar‘LeeAnn's FD61A’, U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 18/999,438. The twocultivar are similar in most horticultural characteristics; however, the new cultivar ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ differs in the following:

The photographs were taken using conventional techniques and although colors may appear different from actual colors due to light reflectance it is as accurate as possible by conventional photographic techniques.

In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society R.H.S. Colour Chart 2015 except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations and measurements describe ‘LeeAnn's FDN79C’ plants grown outdoors, in production cut flower rows in Greencastle, PA. The average growing season for outdoor cut flower production runs from May through mid-October or 24 weeks. The terminal bud is pinched off thearound 4-6 weeks of age. Temperatures ranged from about 23° C. to 39° C. during the day and 7° C. to 23° C. at night. General light conditions are bright, normal sunlight. Botanical data was collected between May and September. Measurements and numerical values represent averages of typical plant types. Age of the plants described is approximately 17 weeks from a rooted cutting