US Plant Patent PP15881
Wessacomp
Sanvitalia plant named ‘Wessacomp’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 20, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 18, 2024. This patent earned 2 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15881
- Filed
- August 18, 2004
- Granted
- July 19, 2005
- Expires
- August 20, 2024
- Assignee
- JOSEF UND HEINRICH WESTHOFF GA
- Inventor
- WESTHOFF HEINRICH
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Sanvitalia plant named ‘Wessacomp’, characterized by its compact and mostly upright, low mounding plant habit; small dark green-colored leaves; freely branching habit and short internodes; dense and bushy plant form; freely flowering habit; and bright yellow-colored ray florets.
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1. A new and distinct cultivar of Sanvitalia plant named ‘Wessacomp’, as illustrated and described.
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