US Plant Patent PP17612

Monike

Lantana plant named ‘Monike’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 6, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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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The record

Patent number: PP17612
Filed: October 6, 2005
Granted: April 17, 2007
Expires: October 6, 2025
Assignee: MONROVIA GROWERS
Inventor: HYNES MICHAEL J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Lantana plant named ‘Monike’, characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; uniformly mounded plant form; freely branching habit and short internodes; dense and bushy form; freely and continuously flowering habit; and flowers that are initially yellow and become orange and eventually red purple in color with development.

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 Lantana plant named ‘Monike’, as illustrated and described.

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