US Plant Patent PP18171

Fantasia

Heuchera plant named ‘Fantasia’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 18, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 13, 2026. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18171, the photograph of Fantasia printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18171, 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: PP18171
Filed: June 13, 2006
Granted: October 30, 2007
Expires: June 18, 2026
Assignee: TERRA NOVA NURSERIES INC
Inventor: EGGER JANET N

Abstract

A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant characterized by spring and summer silver leaves with distinctive dark veins, bright bicolor hot pink/pink, wand type flowers on numerous flowering stems, a mounding habit and excellent vigor.

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

1. A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant as herein illustrated and described.

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