US Plant Patent PP37409
Dark Roast
Geranium plant named ‘Dark Roast’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends August 15, 2045.
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
- PP37409
- Filed
- August 15, 2025
- Granted
- May 5, 2026
- Expires
- August 15, 2045
- Assignee
- NORTH CREEK NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- Steven Castorani
Abstract
A new cultivar of Geranium maculatum plant named ‘Dark Roast’ that is characterized by its flowers that are vibrant fuchsia in color with white throats, its green-burgundy-bronze colored foliage that persists through the summer and into fall with consistent moisture, its palmate-shaped leaves, and its blooming period due to high heat tolerance.
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