US Plant Patent PP17197

AMBER QUEEN

Epimedium plant named ‘AMBER QUEEN’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 26, 2025. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17197
Filed: July 26, 2005
Granted: November 7, 2006
Expires: July 26, 2025
Assignee: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN
Inventor: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘AMBER QUEEN’ that is characterized by clumping habit, spiny holly-like leaflets that are green and russet in color, and amber-orange spurred flowers that are held above two distinct layers of foliage. In combination these traits set ‘AMBER QUEEN’ apart from all other existing varieties of Epimedium 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 Epimedium plant named ‘AMBER QUEEN’, as described and illustrated herein.

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