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US Plant Patent PP17094

Pink Lemonade

Scabiosa columbaria plant named ‘Pink Lemonade’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 14, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 19, 2025. This patent earned 26 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17094, the photograph of Pink Lemonade printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17094, 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
PP17094
Filed
January 19, 2005
Granted
September 12, 2006
Expires
February 14, 2025
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC
Inventor
KWANTES MICHAEL G

Abstract

The new and distinctive plant of Pincushion Flower known as Scabiosa columbaria ‘Pink Lemonade’ and characterized by a golden margin on green leaves, with pink flowers and compact habit especially suitable for potted culture and landscape usage as either a specimen or in large masses.

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

1. The new and distinct Pincushion Flower plant, Scabiosa columbaria ‘Pink Lemonade’, with golden margins and compact habit, essentially as herein described and illustrated suitable as a landscape specimen, mass or potted culture.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17094 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.