US Plant Patent PP17712

Swestrena

Verbena plant named ‘Swestrena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 8, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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 PP17712, the photograph of Swestrena printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17712, 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: PP17712
Filed: December 8, 2005
Granted: May 8, 2007
Expires: December 8, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its deep pink flowers, with light pink to white linear patches, very early flowering and a habit that is first upright and later strong and spreading.

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 named ‘Swestrena,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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