US Plant Patent PP30973

Puppy Love

Pennisetum plant named ‘Puppy Love’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 20, 2038.

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

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The record

Patent number: PP30973
Filed: November 20, 2018
Granted: October 22, 2019
Expires: November 20, 2038
Assignee: WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor: HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Fountain Grass, Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Puppy Love’, characterized by vase-shaped habit of medium height and olive-green arching foliage that develops a blush of greyed-purple. Flowering begins in late August with a greyed-purple effective color period of about ten weeks.

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 Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named ‘Puppy Love’ as herein described and illustrated.

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