US Plant Patent PP19533

Sweet Heidy

Geranium plant named ‘Sweet Heidy’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 10, 2027.

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: PP19533
Filed: December 10, 2007
Granted: December 2, 2008
Expires: December 10, 2027
Assignee: VAN NOORT MARCO
Inventor: VAN NOORT MARCO

Abstract

A new cultivar of Geranium wallichianum , ‘Sweet Heidy’, characterized by its abundant, tricolor flowers with purple veins; pale violet centers become purple pink in the middle regions and violet-blue near the margin, its long blooming season, its clean foliage with yellow spots, its prostrate spreading growth habit with good performance as a groundcover and its cold hardiness at least to U.S.D.A. Zone 5.

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 Geranium plant named ‘sweet Heidy’ as herein illustrated and described.

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