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US Plant Patent PP30039

Little Miss Sunshine

Sedum plant named ‘Little Miss Sunshine’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 22, 2037.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP30039, the photograph of Little Miss Sunshine printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP30039, 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
PP30039
Filed
August 22, 2017
Granted
December 25, 2018
Expires
August 22, 2037
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is characterized by drought-tolerant, winter-hardy, tight, low, clumps, flower stems that remain upright in the center of the plant throughout the growing season, small, dark-green, glossy foliage and numerous bright yellow flowers clustered on small heads that completely covering the compact, low-mounded plant.

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 Sedum plant named ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ as herein described and illustrated useful for landscaping as a specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP30039 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.