US Plant Patent PP7909

Black Eyed Stella

Daylily named Black Eyed Stella

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 14, 2010. 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: PP7909
Filed: June 14, 1990
Granted: July 14, 1992
Expires: June 14, 2010

Abstract

A new daylily cultivar having a profuse production of relatively small flowers having a generally buff yellow color and distinguished by an annular dark red band at its mid-portion surrounding a golden throat having a lime green heart; this plant being particularly characterized by a habit of blooming continuously through upwards of 100 days per year from March until frost in USDA climate zone 10 and mid-May through Fall in climate zone 6.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinctive Daylily cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly distinguished by a bloom of medium size having a dark red annular ring at its mid-portion surrounding a golden colored throat; and a continuous blooming period upwardly of 100 days for a plant having an average height of about 14 inches.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7909 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.