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US Plant Patent PP37290

Big Sky

Salvia plant named ‘Big Sky’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 22, 2044.

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
PP37290
Filed
November 22, 2024
Granted
February 24, 2026
Expires
November 22, 2044
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘Big Sky’ characterized by its large, mounded, vigorous, and winter-hardy habit. The large violet-blue flowers densely arranged in verticils on tall heavily-branched panicles that repeat if deadheaded above a mound of large, rugose, dark-green foliage. The new plant flowers without vernalization. ‘Big Sky’ is useful for landscaping as a specimen plant or en masse.

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 ‘Big Sky’ as herein described and illustrated.

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