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US Plant Patent PP28176

Orchid Annie

Buddleia plant named ‘Orchid Annie’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 31, 2036.

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 PP28176, the photograph of Orchid Annie printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28176, 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
PP28176
Filed
May 31, 2016
Granted
July 11, 2017
Expires
May 31, 2036
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Orchid Annie’ is a very short, compact, round-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with long, densely-flowering, thyrse held from the soil line to the top of the plant beginning early in mid-summer and continuing over a long season until frost with sweetly-fragrant, orchid purple or red-purple flowers that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides.

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

I claim: 1. A new cultivar of winter-hardy butterfly bush Buddleia plant named ‘Orchid Annie’ as herein illustrated and described, especially suitable for potted plant culture, landscaping as a specimen or en masse or as cut flower purposes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28176 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.