US Plant Patent PP11766
Snowmound
Loropetalum plant named ‘Snowmound’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 2019. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11766
- Filed
- April 15, 1999
- Granted
- February 6, 2001
- Expires
- April 15, 2019
- Assignee
- HEAD ORNAMENTALS INC
- Inventor
- HEAD ROBERT HAROLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Loropetalum plant named ‘Snowmound’, characterized by its compact and procumbent growth habit when young developing a globose mound of descending branches with age; dark green leaves; distinctive leaf shape and texture; short internodes giving a full and dense foliage cover; reddish stipules; self-cleaning flowers; adaptability to many varied environments with respect to soil types and light levels; and hardy to Zones 7A to 9B to Zone 6B (USDA Hardiness Map).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Loropetalum plant named ‘Snowmound’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11766 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.