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US Plant Patent PP33844

Lilac Cascade

Buddleia plant named ‘Lilac Cascade’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends September 8, 2041.

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 PP33844, the photograph of Lilac Cascade printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP33844, 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
PP33844
Filed
September 8, 2021
Granted
January 11, 2022
Expires
September 8, 2041
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Lilac Cascade’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, narrow, outwardly drooping flowering thyrse producing a waterfall effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of pale lilac petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. No seed has been observed since development. 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 ‘Lilac Cascade’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP33844 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.