US Plant Patent PP12217
Elvera
Weigela plant named ‘Elvera’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 22, 2019. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP12217
- Filed
- October 22, 1999
- Granted
- November 20, 2001
- Expires
- October 22, 2019
- Assignee
- SPRING MEADOW NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- GEERS HERMAN
Abstract
A distinct cultivar of Weigela plant named ‘Elvera’, characterized by its dwarf, low mounded plant habit; freely branching; dense and bushy growth habit; very dark leaves that appear metallic during the late summer; and resistant to pathogens common to Weigela florida .
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 cultivar of Weigela plant named ‘Elvera’, as illustrated and described.
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