US Plant Patent PP17934

Citronelle

Heuchera plant named ‘Citronelle’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 1, 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17934
Filed: December 1, 2005
Granted: August 21, 2007
Expires: December 1, 2025
Assignee: DELABROYE SANDRINE
Inventor: DELABROYE SANDRINE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Heuchera villosa, ‘Citronelle’, a sport of Heuchera villosa ‘Caramel’, characterized by its uniquely colored yellow-green foliage, its cordate-shaped leaves on rosy red petioles, its vigorous growth habit and its resistance to disease.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Heuchera plant named ‘Citronelle’ as herein illustrated and described.

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