UCD-95

UCD-95

Buffalograss plant named ‘UCD-95’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 19, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 30, 2021. This patent earned 81 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12910, the photograph of UCD-95 printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12910, 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.

Abstract

A new female diploid cultivar of Buffalograss (i.e., Buchloe dactyloides) is provided that resulted from mass selection. Superior turf quality is displayed over the entire growing season. The stolons are of fine texture and the internodes are short. Good drought tolerance is displayed. The plant exhibits superior turf green color retention and short winter dormany. The growth habit is extremely competitive with respect to weeds. A high turf density is made possible with a rapid stolon spreading rate and short plant height that provides an attractive low maintenance turf.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Bachloe dactyloides plant having the following combination of characteristics: (a) stolons of fine texture, (b) superior drought tolerance, (c) a competitive growth habit, (d) short winter dormancy, (e) superior turf green color retention, and (f) high turf density with a rapid stolon spreading rate and short plant height that provides a low maintenance turf; substantially as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12910 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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