US Plant Patent PP37339
October Sky
Panicum plant named ‘October Sky’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 23, 2045.
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
- PP37339
- Filed
- September 23, 2025
- Granted
- March 24, 2026
- Expires
- September 23, 2045
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A new and distinct plant of ornamental Switch Grass named Panicum ‘October Sky’ with blue-green, upright and arching foliage that red-purple tips and blush in early September. The upright and dense culms produce medium-height plants with airy panicles beginning greyed-green and becoming reddish-purple in September before drying in the fall to tan seed heads that are retained into winter. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or in a container.
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 cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘October Sky’ as herein described and illustrated.
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