US Plant Patent PP14312
Morrison-Gilberg (X)
Ornamental winter Hibiscus moscheutos named ‘Morrison-Gilberg (X)’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 20, 2020. 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
- PP14312
- Filed
- March 20, 2000
- Granted
- November 25, 2003
- Expires
- March 20, 2020
- Inventor
- GILBERG DOUGLAS B
Abstract
A new and distinct hybrid variety Hibiscus moscheutos cultivar, particularly distinguished by having flowers of from ten to twelve inches in diameter that are white with deep pink (Red-Purple Group 67A) venation concentrated at the outer margins of each petal, with deep pink eye (Red-Purple Group 67C). The length of the blooming cycle is about four to five weeks. The flowers, which have completely overlapping petals, retain their flat shape for two full days, except when temperatures are exceptionally warm. Distinguishing characteristics are constant and stable in asexually reproduced plants.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Hibiscus moscheutos plant, as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14312 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.