Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP26319

Spilled Buttermilk

Baptisia plant named ‘Spilled Buttermilk’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 21, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 19, 2034. This patent earned 155 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26319, the photograph of Spilled Buttermilk printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26319, 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
PP26319
Filed
March 19, 2014
Granted
January 19, 2016
Expires
August 21, 2034
Assignee
CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES ROBERT
Inventor
AULT JAMES ROBERT

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia , ‘Spilled Buttermilk’, that is characterized by its low growing plant habit that is wider than it is tall, its inflorescences held clear of the foliage that are slightly arching to horizontal at anthesis and becoming horizontal to pendulous as more flowers open, its second inflorescences with very densely borne flower buds, its flowers that are light yellow in color at anthesis and aging to a light green-white color, its foliage that is yellow-green to medium green in color, and its early bloom period beginning in early to mid-May in northern Illinois.

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 ‘Spilled Buttermilk’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26319 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.