US Plant Patent PP20605
Sno Cone
Liriope plant named ‘Sno Cone’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends October 23, 2028.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP20605
- Filed
- October 23, 2008
- Granted
- December 22, 2009
- Expires
- October 23, 2028
- Assignee
- ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
- Inventor
- ELSLEY JOHN E
Abstract
A new cultivar of Liriope , ‘Sno Cone’, characterized by its tight clump-forming and non-spreading growth habit, its strongly recurved foliage that is green and white foliage with the white coloration increasing with leaf maturation and retained throughout the growing season, and its uniquely colored berries in fall that are mottled with purple, green, and white.
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 Liriope plant named ‘Sno Cone’ as herein illustrated and described.
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