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US Plant Patent PP17441

American Icon

Hosta plant named ‘American Icon’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 30, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 6, 2025. This patent earned 24 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17441, the photograph of American Icon printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17441, 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
PP17441
Filed
April 6, 2005
Granted
February 20, 2007
Expires
April 30, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘American Icon’, a sport of Hosta Choo Choo Train, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with green centers and yellow-green margins comprising about one third of the leaf area. ‘American Icon’ has a mounded plant habit of large broad leaves, a vigorous growth rate, and pale lavender flowers held above the foliage in early to mid summer.

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 Hosta plant named ‘American Icon’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17441 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.