US Plant Patent PP16277

SPLENDID STAR

Cortaderia plant named ‘SPLENDID STAR’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 18, 2024. This patent earned 178 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16277
Filed: May 18, 2004
Granted: February 21, 2006
Expires: November 12, 2024
Assignee: VERHOEF GIJSBERTUS
Inventor: VERHOEF GIJSBERTUS

Abstract

A new cultivar of Cortaderia plant named ‘SPLENDID STAR’ that is characterized by dwarf, spreading habit, variegated golden foliage, and silver-white plumes in fall. In combination these traits set ‘SPLENDID STAR’ apart from all other existing varieties of Cortaderia known to the inventor.

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 Cortaderia plant named ‘SPLENDID STAR’ as described and illustrated herein.

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