US Plant Patent PP36918
Prairie Princess
Vernonia plant named ‘Prairie Princess’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends July 25, 2044.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP36918
- Filed
- July 25, 2024
- Granted
- September 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 25, 2044
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Vernonia plant named ‘Prairie Princess’ with very rounded mound habit; dark olive-green with a purplish blush early in the season, linear foliage and numerous inflorescences, on heavily-branched stems, containing rosy-purple disk florets beginning in late summer and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Vernonia plant named ‘Prairie Princess’ as herein described and illustrated.
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