US Plant Patent PP5944
Chrysanthemum plant named Seminole
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 20, 2005. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5944
- Filed
- June 20, 1985
- Granted
- April 14, 1987
- Expires
- June 20, 2005
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH MAY V
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Seminole having flat capitulum form and quilled daisy type; bright lavender color when finished under cool temperatures; diameter across face of the flowers of 0.75" to 2"; uniform eight week flowering response when grown photoperiodically and natural flowering season of September 26-October 9; height 6" to 8' above the edge of a 4" pot when grown photoperiodically, and 1' to 2' when grown outdoors, and a compact cushion habit when grown outdoors.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Seminole, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and quilled daisy type; bright lavender color when finished under cool temperatures; diameter across face of the flowers of 0.75" to 2"; uniform eight week flowering response when grown photoperiodically and natural flowering season of September 26-October 9; height 6" to 8" above the edge of a 4" pot when grown photoperiodically, and 1' to 2' when grown outdoors, and a compact cushion habit when grown outdoors.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5944 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.