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US Plant Patent PP11088

Sapphire Blue

Eryngium plant named `Sapphire Blue`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 26, 2017. 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
PP11088
Filed
August 26, 1997
Granted
October 12, 1999
Expires
August 26, 2017
Inventor
RUIGROK WOUTER

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of plant named `Sapphire Blue`, characterized by the combined features of large, intense lavender blue teasel-like flowers with a collar of spiny bracts, flowering commencing in June and continuing into August, and stems similar in color to the flower.

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

I claim: 1. A new distinct cultivar of Eryngium plant named `Saphhire Blue`, substantially as shown and

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11088 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.