US Plant Patent PP36549

Dream Catcher

Epimedium plant named ‘Dream Catcher’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends September 13, 2044.

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: PP36549
Filed: September 13, 2024
Granted: March 11, 2025
Expires: September 13, 2044
Assignee: WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor: HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘Dream Catcher’ characterized by its medium size habit, evergreen foliage. The flowers are light yellow spurs with reddish sepals on airy branched corymbs beginning in late spring. The foliage has three leaflets of light chartreuse with blotches of burgundy in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘Dream Catcher’ as herein described and illustrated.

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