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US Plant Patent PP35272

Butter Pecan

Echinacea plant named ‘Butter Pecan’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 16, 2042.

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

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP35272, the photograph of Butter Pecan printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35272, 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.

The record

Patent number
PP35272
Filed
November 16, 2022
Granted
July 18, 2023
Expires
November 16, 2042
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Butter Pecan’ with inflorescences on branched stems producing single whorls of creamy-yellow ray florets and a large center pompon of disk florets. The disk florets are very long with notched apices and frequently with extra side lobes giving a fuller pompon effect. The new plant flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.

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 Echinacea plant named ‘Butter Pecan’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35272 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.