Panicum plant named Totem Pole

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 15, 2037.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP29951, the photograph of Panicum plant named Totem Pole printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29951, 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

PP29951

Filed

November 15, 2017

Granted

December 4, 2018

Expires

November 15, 2037

Assignee

WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A

Inventor

HANSEN HANS A

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

Abstract

The new and distinct plant of ornamental switch grass named Panicum virgatum ‘Totem Pole’ with broad blue-green foliage that retains it coloration into the fall. The upright, columnar and dense culms produce tall plant with broadly-spreading airy panicles of tan seed heads that are retained into winter.

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 ornamental switch grass plant named Panicum virgatum ‘Totem Pole’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP29951 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.