US Plant Patent PP18384

Rap Viotwo

Verbena plant named ‘Rap Viotwo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 23, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 10, 2026. This patent earned 105 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP18384
Filed: March 10, 2006
Granted: January 1, 2008
Expires: June 23, 2026
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: HANES MITCHELL E

Abstract

A verbena plant particularly distinguished by deep violet-blue flowers that form a semi-spherical-shaped inflorescence, an early, continuous and abundant flowering response, medium green foliage with moderately dissected leaves, medium vigor, free-branching, and a moderately compact, partly spreading to decumbent and semi-trailing plant habit, is disclosed.

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 verbena plant as shown and described herein.

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