Epimedium Patents (Class PLT/429)
  • Publication number: 20190254216
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Popstar’ is characterized by tight-forming compact clumps with small-sized, blue-green glaucous foliage blushed with greyed-purple on vertical to slightly arching branching stems flower stems that resist falling over and opening up in the center of the plant throughout the growing season. Numerous stems produce a multitude of flowers of mauve-pink effect completely covering the top of the plant. The new plant is useful for the landscape in containers, as specimens, en masse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20090260120
    Abstract: A new Epimedium hybrida cultivar is provided that displays a low-growing clumping growth habit. The new cultivar flowers in April and May and forms attractive white blossoms that commonly are borne above the foliage. The plant is well suited for providing distinctive ornamentation when grown in containers, in rock gardens, or as a ground cover. Attractive light green deciduous leaflets are formed. The plant grows well in full sun to moderate shade. During observations to date the new variety has been found to be readily amenable to asexual propagation by division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: Richard W. Lighty
  • Patent number: PP20344
    Abstract: A new Epimedium hybrida cultivar is provided that displays a low-growing clumping growth habit. The new cultivar flowers in April and May and forms attractive white blossoms that commonly are borne above the foliage. The plant is well suited for providing distinctive ornamentation when grown in containers, in rock gardens, or as a ground cover. Attractive light green deciduous leaflets are formed. The plant grows well in full sun to moderate shade. During observations to date the new variety has been found to be readily amenable to asexual propagation by division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: CP Delaware, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard W. Lighty
  • Patent number: PP29744
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Epimedium hybrid, ‘Ninja Stars’, characterized by its leaves that are long, narrow, and evergreen with very spiny leaf margins, its foliage that emerges bronze in color in spring and turns medium dark green and semi-glossy in appearance as the season progresses, its numerous erect flower stems held above the foliage that are large in size and yellow in color, semi-long rhizomes averaging 10 cm in length, and its cold hardiness to at least U.S.D.A. Zone 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Darrell R. Probst
  • Patent number: PP31676
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Epimedium plant, ‘Magnificent’, that is characterized by its ge similar to plants of the species Epimedium pinnatum, its flowers that are conspicuously carried above the foliage, its unique flower coloration with spurred petals that are shorter than the sepals and orange-brown in color and sepals that are pale yellow in color, its flowers that are large in size, its foliage that is dark in color in the winter, its spreading plant shape, and its young leaves that are red-purple in color and change to deep yellow-green as they mature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventor: Thierry Delabroye