US Plant Patent PP12258
UMan
Potentilla fruticosa plant named ‘UMan’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 7, 2020. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP12258
- Filed
- April 7, 2000
- Granted
- December 4, 2001
- Expires
- April 7, 2020
- Assignee
- UNIV MANITOBA
- Inventor
- LENZ LOUIS M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Shrubby Potentilla botanically known as Potentilla fruticosa is provided. Attractive single bicolored blossoms are displayed from the summer until the time of frost. Such flowers are deep yellow in coloration with orange-red radiating outward from the center. The plant is small to medium-sized and displays a neat, dense, and compact growth habit. Medium green pinnately compound leaves are formed. The plant can be grown as attractive ornamentation in the landscape under a wide range of climatic conditions.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of Potentilla fruticosa plant having the following combination of characteristics: (a) is a small to medium-sized plant having a dense and compact growth habit, (b) forms attractive medium green pinnately compound leaves, and (c) forms in profusion attractive single bicolored flowers that are deep yellow with orange-red coloration radiating outward from the center; substantially as illustrated and described.
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