US Plant Patent PP17370
Jade Frost
Eryngium planum plant named ‘Jade Frost’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 12, 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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17370
- Filed
- September 12, 2005
- Granted
- January 16, 2007
- Expires
- September 12, 2025
- Assignee
- CAVE JAMES ANDREW, CAVE MEGAN KATHRYN
- Inventor
- CAVE JAMES ANDREW; CAVE MEGAN KATHRYN
Abstract
A new and distinct Eryngium planum plant characterized by blue green leaves with prominent white margins, new leaves with pink edges in cool night temperatures, violet blue-colored flowers and flowering stem branches, and excellent vigor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct Eryngium planum plant as herein illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17370 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.