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US Plant Patent PP30868

Grand Cascade

Buddleia plant named ‘Grand Cascade’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 23, 2038.

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

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP30868, the photograph of Grand Cascade printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP30868, 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
PP30868
Filed
April 23, 2018
Granted
September 3, 2019
Expires
April 23, 2038
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Grand Cascade’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, slightly drooping, flowering thyrse producing a cascading effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of strong purple petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new cultivar of winter-hardy butterfly bush plant named Buddleia ‘Grand Cascade’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP30868 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.