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US Plant Patent PP21498

Huron Solstice

Panicum plant named ‘Huron Solstice’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 25, 2028.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 21, 2028. This patent earned 126 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP21498, the photograph of Huron Solstice printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21498, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP21498
Filed
August 21, 2008
Granted
November 16, 2010
Expires
December 25, 2028
Assignee
QUINN MARTIN
Inventor
QUINN MARTIN

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Switch Grass, Panicum virgatum ‘Huron Solstice’, with erect culms and becoming deep wine red early in the season and light airy flowers that persist into winter. ‘Huron Solstice’ is suitable as a potted plant, for multi-seasonal mass or specimen landscaping, and for cut flower arrangements.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. Panicum ‘Huron Solstice’ is a new and distinct plant of ornamental Switch Grass as herein described and illustrated, with erect culms and becoming dark purple very early in the season, well suited for multi-seasonal landscape interest as a specimen or in mass, as a potted plant, and for cut flower arrangements.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP21498 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.