US Plant Patent PP12242
Kim's Knee High
Echinacea plant named ‘Kim's Knee High’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 6, 2019. 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
- PP12242
- Filed
- April 6, 1999
- Granted
- December 4, 2001
- Expires
- April 6, 2019
- Assignee
- KIMBERLY TERRY HANKS
- Inventor
- HAWKS KIMBERLY TERRY
Abstract
Echinacea purpurea ‘Kim's Knee High’ is a new and distinct dwarf perennial Cone Flower with rose-pink to purple-pink flowers on plants 38 to 60 cm (15 to 24 inches) tall for an extended period of twelve weeks.
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 dwarf cultivar of Echinacea purpurea plant named ‘Kim's Knee High’, with extended flowering period, developed and discovered in a cultivated state, asexually propagated by the inventor and suitable for landscape or potted plant culture, as herein illustrated and described.
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