US Plant Patent PP17941

Crazy Ruffles

Sedum plant named ‘Crazy Ruffles’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 17, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 23, 2025. This patent earned 55 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17941, the photograph of Crazy Ruffles printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17941, 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: PP17941
Filed: September 23, 2005
Granted: August 21, 2007
Expires: November 17, 2025
Assignee: TH LANGEVELD B V
Inventor: VAN KESTEREN MARC

Abstract

A new cultivar of Sedum, Sedum ‘Crazy Ruffles’, a sport of Sedum ‘Matrona’, characterized by its unique foliage with leaf margins that are dentated and wavy for a ruffled effect. ‘Crazy Ruffles’ exhibits pink tinged stems, a compact plant habit, and blooms with cymes of light pink flowers in late summer through early fall.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Sedum plant named ‘Crazy Ruffles’ as herein illustrated and described.

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