US Plant Patent PP16973

Wescapurve

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Wescapurve’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 6, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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

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The record

Patent number: PP16973
Filed: June 6, 2005
Granted: August 8, 2006
Expires: June 6, 2025
Assignee: J & H WESTHOFF INTERPEL
Inventor: WESTHOFF HEINRICH

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Wescapurve’, characterized by its cascading and vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; short internodes; dense and bushy appearance; medium-sized leaves; medium-sized flowers; and numerous light purple-colored flowers with purple-colored venation and a dark purple-colored circumorbital ring.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Wescapurve’, as illustrated and described.

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