US Plant Patent PP17434

Moonlight

Heuchera plant named ‘Moonlight’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 19, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 14, 2025. This patent earned 35 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17434
Filed: June 14, 2005
Granted: February 20, 2007
Expires: July 19, 2025
Assignee: OLIVER CHARLES
Inventor: OLIVER CHARLES

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Heuchera plant named ‘Moonlight’, characterized by its full, densely foliated and uniformly mounded plant habit; silver and purple bronze-colored foliage; numerous large pale green-colored flowers arranged on mostly erect panicles; and excellent garden performance.

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 ‘Moonlight’, as illustrated and described.

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