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US Plant Patent PP25902

Blue Mound

Baptisia plant named ‘Blue Mound’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 22, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 24, 2033. This patent earned 119 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25902, the photograph of Blue Mound printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25902, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP25902
Filed
December 24, 2013
Granted
September 15, 2015
Expires
April 22, 2034
Assignee
CHICAGO LAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES R
Inventor
AULT JAMES R

Abstract

A new cultivar of Baptisia australis , ‘Blue Mound’, that is characterized by its dense, uniform, rounded, and low growing plant habit, its foliage that completely masks the bases of the main stems, its inflorescences that are held above the foliage, its 1.9 cm wide flowers that are deep violet in color and bloom from mid May to early June in northern Illinois, its high level of fertility; setting a good quantity of fruit with viable seed, its green stems that do not lodge after summer rainstorms, and its tolerance of both acidic and alkaline soil.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Baptisia plant named ‘Blue Mound’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25902 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.