US Plant Patent PP25926
Sandstorm
Baptisia plant named ‘Sandstorm’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 2, 2034.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2034. This patent earned 58 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP25926
- Filed
- March 5, 2014
- Granted
- September 22, 2015
- Expires
- May 2, 2034
- Assignee
- CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES ROBERT
- Inventor
- AULT JAMES ROBERT
Abstract
A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia, ‘Sandstorm’, that is characterized by its distinctly vase-shaped plant habit with strongly upright stems during anthesis that expand into a broad rounded mound at maximum vegetative growth, its flowers that are bicolored; light yellow-green and suffused with medium to dark violet with lateral petals that are distinctly bicolored with yellow on the lower portion and yellow suffused with medium to dark violet on the upper portion, and its flowers that are uniform, densely borne, and arranged radially on the inflorescences.
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 ‘Sandstorm’ as herein illustrated and described.
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