US Plant Patent PP28621
Wildfire
Sedum plant named ‘Wildfire’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 14, 2036.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 19, 2036. This patent earned 86 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP28621
- Filed
- January 19, 2016
- Granted
- November 7, 2017
- Expires
- April 14, 2036
- Assignee
- HANSEN CHRISTOPHER M
- Inventor
- HANSEN CHRISTOPHER M
Abstract
A new cultivar of Sedum plant named ‘Wildfire’ characterized by its variegated foliage that emerges with a tri-color look of green, pink and yellow in the spring and turns bright shiny cherry red in color with bright orange-pink margins as it matures in full sun with color retention throughout the entire growing season, its heavy branching with branches from every leaf node along the stems producing a mounded groundcover-type plant habit with no open centers and that does not flop in the summer, and its large inflorescences that are pink in color and appear in late summer.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of Sedum plant named ‘Wildfire’ as described and illustrated herein.
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