US Plant Patent PP20408

Solar Flare

Baptisia plant named ‘Solar Flare’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 27, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP20408
Filed: August 27, 2008
Granted: October 13, 2009
Expires: August 27, 2028
Assignee: AULT JAMES R
Inventor: AULT JAMES R

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia , ‘Solar Flare’, characterized by its upright primary racemes and its spreading secondary racemes of flowers that are initially yellow in color and age to yellow with a distinct orange-violet cast, its stems that emerge with a purple cast in spring, its lack of foliage on the lower 25 to 40 cm of stem, its broad rounded plant habit, and its vigorous growth habit.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Baptisia plant named ‘Solar Flare’ as herein illustrated and described.

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