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US Plant Patent PP12909

Karley Rose

Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 23, 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12909, the photograph of Karley Rose printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12909, 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
PP12909
Filed
December 23, 1999
Granted
September 3, 2002
Expires
December 23, 2019
Assignee
SUNNY BORDEN NURSERIES INC
Inventor
SKWIOT DAVID GEORGE

Abstract

Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’ is a new and distinct cultivar of Oriental Fountain Grass with deep green foliage, dark purple flowers effective for 16 to 18 weeks, and freeze hardy at least to temperatures of −15° F. (−26° C.).

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of Oriental Fountain Grass, Pennisetum orientale plant, ‘Karley Rose’, essentially as herein described and illustrated, with deep green foliage, dark purple flowers effective for 16 to 18 weeks, and hardy to at least temperatures

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12909 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.