US Plant Patent PP17179

FIRE DRAGON

Epimedium plant named ‘FIRE DRAGON’

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: PP17179
Filed: July 26, 2005
Granted: October 31, 2006
Expires: July 26, 2025
Assignee: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN
Inventor: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘FIRE DRAGON’ that is charaterized by clumping habit, yellow-green and grey-brown leaflets, with large red and yellow, spurred flowers that are held above two distinct layers of foliage. In combination these traits set ‘FIRE DRAGON’ 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 ‘FIRE DRAGON’, as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17179 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.