US Plant Patent PP37266
Rays for Days
Heliopsis plant named ‘Rays for Days’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 25, 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
- PP37266
- Filed
- April 25, 2025
- Granted
- February 10, 2026
- Expires
- April 25, 2045
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
The new and distinct hardy perennial Heliopsis plant named ‘Rays for Days’ with dense, rounded, extensively-branched habit, strong, tall, upright stems that resist lodging. The foliage is medium green and broadly ovate to narrowly deltoid. Freely-flowering double inflorescences in a capitulum with multiple rows of golden-yellow, overlapping, ray florets beginning in early July and continuing for about 6 weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, in containers or as cut flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1 . A new and distinct hardy perennial Heliopsis plant named ‘Rays for Days’ essentially as herein described and illustrated.
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