US Plant Patent PP30534
Azure Snow
Salvia plant named ‘Azure Snow’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends October 2, 2037.
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
- PP30534
- Filed
- October 2, 2017
- Granted
- May 21, 2019
- Expires
- October 2, 2037
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘Azure Snow’ characterized by its large flowers with violet-blue colored hood petals and white lower labium petals having a thin strong violet margin. Flowers are produced in late spring to early summer and repeat in late summer if deadheaded. The persistent dark green calyxes densely arranged in verticils fill in the full mounded habit with many stiff, upright, branched stems above large, rugose, dark-green foliage. ‘Azure Snow’ is useful for landscaping as a winter-hardy specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. The new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named ‘Azure Snow’ as herein described and illustrated.
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