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US Plant Patent PP17313

High Society

Hosta plant named ‘High Society’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 6, 2025. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17313, the photograph of High Society printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17313, 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
PP17313
Filed
September 6, 2005
Granted
December 26, 2006
Expires
September 18, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘High Society’, a sport of Hosta ‘June’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with wide blue-green margins comprising about two thirds of the leaf area, centers that emerge yellow green turning to white, with intermediate areas of bright green. ‘High Society’ is a smaller Hosta , in comparison to ‘June’, with a mounded plant habit and pinkish white flowers held above the foliage that are present from late summer to early fall.

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 ‘High Society’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17313 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.