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US Plant Patent PP12475

First Spring

Hemerocallis plant named ‘First Spring’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 3, 2020. 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12475, the photograph of First Spring printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12475, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12475
Filed
May 3, 2000
Granted
March 19, 2002
Expires
May 3, 2020
Assignee
TWYFORD PLANT LAB INC
Inventor
KASKEL MATTHEW

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Hemerocallis plant named ‘First Spring’ characterized by its peach colored flowers with a red eye zone and picotee edge which are borne on short branched scapes. Plants of ‘First Spring’ bloom early and repeatedly throughout the growing season. Plants of ‘First Spring’ are evergreen and clump-forming, thus they are attractive in landscapes. The plant grows vigorously and propagated easily by division or tissue culture.

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 cultivar of Hemerocallis plant named ‘First Spring’ as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12475 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.