US Plant Patent PP8475
TAES 1321
609 Buffalograss
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 6, 2011. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP8475
- Filed
- September 6, 1991
- Granted
- November 23, 1993
- Expires
- September 6, 2011
- Assignee
- UNIV NEBRASKA
- Inventor
- RIORDAN TERRANCE P; BAXENDALE FREDERICK P; DE SHAZER SUSAN A; KINBACHER EDWARD J; SVOBODA JEANA L F; ENGELKE MILTON C; WIT JR LEONARD A
Abstract
A vegetatively reproduced buffalograss cultivar, named 609 Buffalograss, is distinguished by its excellent overall turfgrass quality, rate of establishment, good cold tolerance, high density, and excellent color. This cultivar is adapted to low maintenance conditions and has the ability to maintain growth and color later into the fall than other warm season grasses.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct perennial, female buffalograss cultivar as herein shown and described, distinguished by the characteristics described above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8475 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.