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US Plant Patent PP22169

Blue Ridge

×Heucherella plant named ‘Blue Ridge’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends September 8, 2030.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP22169, the photograph of Blue Ridge printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP22169, 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
PP22169
Filed
September 8, 2010
Granted
September 27, 2011
Expires
September 8, 2030
Assignee
ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
Inventor
SAUL RICHARD G

Abstract

A new cultivar of × Heucherella, ‘Blue Ridge’, characterized by its foliage that is silver-green in color with burgundy veins with a thin green margin on the upper surface and green in color on the lower surface, its large ovate-shaped leaves that average 8 cm in length, its clean white flowers in early spring, and its tolerance to heat, humidity, and exposure to sunlight with good garden performance in the southern regions of the U.S.

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 × Heucherella plant named ‘Blue Ridge’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP22169 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.