Whit LXXI

Whit LXXI

Indian grass plant named ‘Whit LXXI’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 23, 2040.

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

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Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Indian grass, Sorghastrum nutans , designated cultivar ‘Whit LXXI’ substantially as illustrated and described herein having distinct blue-grey foliage and compact stature with stout culms supporting rusty-tan colored flower plumes beginning in mid-summer. This new cultivar is characterized by a transitioning growth habit during the growing season, beginning with blue-grey foliage, dwarf stems that grow about 16 to 25 inches tall during spring to mid-summer, then dense tufts of flowering culms supporting additional blue-grey leaves making the plant foliage about 30 to 40 inches tall, continuing with the extension of plume like very upright rusty-tan seed heads 46 to 58 inches tall. The new variety of Indian grass is a distinctly superior seedling selected from multiple generations of seedlings resulting from research that began in 1997.

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I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Indian grass, Sorghastrum nutans , named ‘Whit LXXI’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

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