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US Plant Patent PP35191

Copper King

Heucherella plant named ‘Copper King’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 22, 2042.

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 PP35191, the photograph of Copper King printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35191, 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
PP35191
Filed
November 22, 2022
Granted
May 23, 2023
Expires
November 22, 2042
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new hybrid X Heucherella plant named ‘Copper King’ with slightly-cupped leaves at the petiole and flat margins, deeply incised into five to seven main lobes with each individual lobes irregularly incised. Foliage color starts in the spring as bright orange with reddish-copper in surrounding the veins, and the edges develop a yellowish-chartreuse and matures in the late fall to a medium-green with a mahogany pattern around the veins. ‘Copper King’ is vigorous and produces many airy panicles with numerous sterile creamy-white flowers in densely branched panicles beginning late spring and exhibits good heat and humidity tolerance. The plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen color, en masse, or as a container plant.

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

It is claimed: 1. The new and distinct ornamental plant named x Heucherella ‘Copper King’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35191 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.