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US Plant Patent PP36004

Pink Pearls

Penstemon plant named ‘Pink Pearls’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2043.

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 PP36004, the photograph of Pink Pearls printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36004, 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
PP36004
Filed
December 15, 2023
Granted
July 9, 2024
Expires
December 15, 2043
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of Penstemon plant named ‘Pink Pearls’ with strictly upright, tightly-compact strong stems, and numerous, medium, rosy-colored flowers for about four weeks beginning in early summer and repeating in late summer if deadheaded. The lanceolate foliage is bluish-green, the plant is winter hardy to at least USDA zone 4, long-lived, and persistent in the landscape. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen plant, en masse, or container plant, and attractive to hummingbirds.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Penstemon plant named ‘Pink Pearls’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP36004 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.