U.S. patent number PP32,848 [Application Number 16/873,944] was granted by the patent office on 2021-02-23 for salvia plant named `snow kiss`.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Walters Gardens, Inc. The grantee listed for this patent is Hans A Hansen. Invention is credited to Hans A Hansen.
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United States Patent |
PP32,848 |
Hansen |
February 23, 2021 |
Salvia plant named `Snow Kiss`
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named
`Snow Kiss` characterized by its white flower buds and large white
flowers with a blush of pale purple densely arranged in verticils.
The new plant has a dense habit with stiff, upright,
heavily-branched stems showing persistent calyxes, a strong
vigorous growth rate and dark olive-green foliage.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
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Assignee: |
Walters Gardens, Inc (Zeeland,
MI)
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Family
ID: |
74659054 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/873,944 |
Filed: |
August 20, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/475 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20130101); A01H 6/508 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
6/50 (20180101); A01H 5/02 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/475 |
Primary Examiner: Para; Annette H
Claims
It is claimed:
1. The new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named `Snow Kiss` as
herein described and illustrated useful for landscaping as a
specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.
Description
Botanical denomination: Salvia pratensis hybrid.
Cultivar designation: `Snow Kiss`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosure, in the form of a catalog with a
photograph and brief description was on Aug. 20, 2019 maintained by
Gootjes-Allplant BV in The Netherlands. Gootjes-Allplant BV
obtained their plants and all information about the new plant
indirectly from the inventor. No plants of Salvia `Snow Kiss` have
been sold in this country or anywhere in the world, nor has any
disclosure of the new plant been made, more than one year prior to
the filing date of this application, and such sale or disclosure
within one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the
inventor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
ornamental sage plant hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name
Salvia `Snow Kiss` or as the new plant. The new plant was selected
from a cross under the direction of the inventor in the late spring
of 2014 between `Pretty in Pink` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,550 as the
female or seed parent and the male or pollen parent is unnamed
sibling of `Pretty in Pink` (not patented). The cross was performed
within the breeding area of a wholesale perennial nursery in
Zeeland, Mich., USA. Seed was collected on Jun. 11, 2014 and sown
at the same nursery. The new plant was initially evaluated in the
summer of 2016 and assigned the breeder code 14-2-2 through the
trial process prior to assigning the cultivar name.
The new Salvia was further evaluated and asexually propagated
initially by division, by basal cuttings taken at the same nursery
in Zeeland, Mich., USA in 2017 and later from shoot tip tissue
culture. Evaluation of these and further cutting grown plants shows
that Salvia `Snow Kiss` continues to be stable and produce true to
type plants in successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of Salvia `Snow Kiss` have not been observed under all
possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat
with variations in environment such as temperature, nutrition and
light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
Salvia `Snow Kiss` can be closely compared to Salvia `White
Profusion`
U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/602,703, `Florsalwhite`
U.S. Plant Pat. No. 21,243, `Bumblesnow` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
31,399, and `Snow Hill` (not patented). `White Profusion`,
`Bumblesnow`, `Florsalwhite` and `Snow Hill` all are Salvia
nemorosa types with much smaller flowers. `Snow Kiss` is slightly
taller in flower habit than `Snow Hill`, `White Profusion and
`Florsalwhite` and significantly taller than `Bumblesnow`. `Snow
Hill` is much narrower in habit, and all the other comparison
cultivars are more broad mounded than the new plant. All of the
above comparison cultivars have pure white flowers without the pale
purple blush. The female parent has similar-sized flowers, but of
lavender pink flowers, and darker pink calyxes, deep purplish-red
flower buds and grey-purple tinting of the peduncle.
The following characteristics in combination distinguish Saliva
`Snow Kiss` as a new and distinct cultivar from all other cultivars
known to the inventor: 1. Large white flowers with a pale purple
blush densely arranged in verticils; 2. Stiff, upright, chartreuse,
heavily-branched stems; 3. White flower buds with a blush of pale
purple; 4. Dense, rounded, strong, vigorous and winter-hardy habit;
5. Rugose, dark olive-green foliage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits and
the overall appearance of Salvia `Snow Kiss`. The colors are as
accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Variation
in ambient light spectrum, source and direction may cause the
appearance of minor variation in color. The plant used in the
photographs was a three-year old plant grown in an open, full-sun
trial garden at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich.
with supplemental water and fertilizer when needed. Plant growth
regulators have been used in greenhouse grown trials only.
FIG. 1 shows the plant habit in full flower in a landscape.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower scape with the buds, flowers,
stems and calyxes.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following descriptions and color references except where common
dictionary terms are used are based on the 2015 edition of The
Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart. Salvia `Snow Kiss` has
not been observed under all possible environments. The phenotype
may vary slightly with different growing environments such as
temperature, light, fertility, soil pH, moisture and plant maturity
levels, but without any change in the genotype. The following
observations and size descriptions are based on three-year old
plants growing in an outdoor full-sun trial garden at a wholesale
perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. and greenhouse forced two-year
old plants. Plants were given supplemental water and fertilizer and
plant growth regulators were used for the greenhouse trials only.
Botanical classification: Salvia pratensis hybrid (Linnaeus);
Parentage: Female or seed parent `Pretty in Pink`; male or pollen
parent unnamed sibling to `Pretty in Pink`; Plant habit:
Winter-hardy herbaceous perennial; multi-stemmed, compact, rounded,
with mostly basal foliage, and flowers in several tightly arranged
in verticils on branched upright racemes displayed above foliage;
in flower with panicles about 55 cm tall and about 60 cm wide at
the fullest point; foliage extends up the stems about 26 cm tall
from soil and 50 cm wide below flower; Propagation: By basal
vegetative shoot cuttings; time to produce a rooted stems about two
weeks; Growth rate: Rapid, vigorous, finishing in a 65 mm container
in about 7 weeks from rooted cutting, and from 65 mm container to
flowering 3.8 liter container in about 8 weeks. Root description:
Fine, well-branched; color dependent on age and soil type, from
cream to dark tan in color; Foliage: Opposite, simple, rugose,
lanceolate; margin crenate and crenulate; glabrous and matte
abaxial and adaxial surfaces; acute apex and base cordate to
auriculate with lobes frequently overlapping; leaf blades about
14.0 cm long and 6.0 cm across, decreasing in size distally;
average about 11.0 cm long and 4.5 cm across; faint sage fragrance;
Foliage color: Young adaxial surface between RHS 146A and RHS 146B,
abaxial surface nearest RHS 146B; mature adaxial surface between
RHS NN137B and NN137A, abaxial surface between RHS 147B and RHS
137B; Venation: Reticulate; impressed on adaxial side and costate
on abaxial side; pubescent abaxial, puberulent adaxial; Vein color:
Adaxial midrib nearest RHS 145C, primary and secondary veins
nearest RHS 145C toward midrib and gradually darkening to between
RHS 138A and RHS 138B; abaxial midrib nearest RHS 145C, primary
veins nearest RHS 145C and secondary veins nearest RHS 145C
gradually darkening to nearest RHS 146C toward leaf margin;
Petiole: Concavo-convex; pubescent abaxial and along margin,
sparsely puberulent adaxial; to about 8.0 cm long and 5.0 mm wide,
average 4.5 cm long and 4.0 mm wide at base; Petiole color: Adaxial
and abaxial surfaces nearest 146D; Inflorescence: Verticillate with
flowering generally beginning at lower verticils and advancing up
the scape, but not all flowers at each verticil opening at the same
time giving the effect of a scape being in continuous flower for
longer periods; average distance between verticils about 12.0 mm,
greater proximally and less distally; attitude with midline
projected about 10 degree angle above horizontal and hood petal
about 45 degree angle above horizontal; self-cleaning, petals not
persistent; flowering beginning late spring for about six weeks
with limited repeating if initial scapes removed; Flower longevity:
About four days on the plant or as cut flower; Fragrance: None
detected under present growing conditions; Flower buds one to two
days prior to anthesis: Shape is rounded on top and slightly
concave below, with rounded apex; pubescent; about 10.0 mm long,
5.0 mm tall and 3.0 mm wide; Bud color: Exposed dorsal petals
nearest RHS NN155D, ventral petals nearest RHS NN155D blushed with
nearest RHS N75D; abaxial calyx between RHS 146D and RHS N144A with
veins nearest RHS 146C; Flowers: Perfect, bilabiate corolla with
arcuate hooded upper lip and tri-lobed lower lip; about 18.0 cm
long, 20.0 mm tall and 7.5 mm wide, fused into tube in the proximal
8.0 mm; clustered at verticils; Petals: Bilabiate corolla; upper
hood petal arcuate and flattened side to side vertically, lower
petal labiate with crenate rounded apex and base fused with labium;
Hood (upper) petal: Minutely pubescent abaxial, glabrous adaxial;
about 19.0 mm long, 12.0 mm tall and 3.0 mm across; Labium (lower)
petal: Consisting of three lobes, two proximal lobes about 3.0 mm
long and 2.5 mm wide at base with rounded apex; center lobe with
rounded emarginate apex, about 7.0 mm long 10.0 mm wide; center
lobe slightly concaved upwards; total labium about 15.0 mm long,
8.0 mm wide at the widest portion across lobes and 5.0 mm tall;
Petal color: Abaxial and adaxial hood petal nearest RHS NN155D;
lower labium petal abaxial nearest RHS NN155D with center labium
lobe lightly blushed with between RHS 76D and RHS N75D in center
and lower abaxial tube distal fusion for about 3 mm lightly blushed
with between RHS 76D and RHS N75D; abaxial dorsal calyx tube and
adaxial calyx tube nearest RHS NN155D; Androecium: Two, fused with
labium, contained within hood petal except when triggered by
pollinator; Filament.--Glabrous, fused about 7.0 mm from base of
labium petal; curved around inside of hood petal; about 12.0 mm
long and less than 0.5 mm diameter with a 2.0 mm trip mechanism at
base; color nearest RHS NN155D with very faint blushing nearest RHS
N75D in distal region before anther. Anther.--Glabrous, oblong,
about 3.0 mm long and 1.0 mm diameter; longitudinal, dorsifixed;
color nearest RHS 11C. Pollen.--Abundant; globose; less than 0.1 mm
circumference; color nearest RHS 12B. Gynoecium: One, curved around
inside of hood petal; Style.--About 24.0 mm long and less than 0.5
mm diameter; color nearest RHS NN155D and faintly blushed distally
about 5.0 mm before stigma split with nearest RHS 77D.
Stigma.--Bifurcate and curved in the terminal 2.0 mm; apex pointed;
color nearest RHS 77A. Ovary.--Superior; color more green than RHS
145A and more yellow than RHS 138B. Fruit: Nutlet, one to four per
flower; rounded, about 1.5 mm diameter; color darker than RHS 200A;
Calyx: Five sepals, three upper and two lower, campanulate, apex
acute; fused in basal 4.0 mm; tube about 7.0 mm long and 6.0 mm
tall at and 3.0 mm wide at apex; lower set bifurcate in terminal
2.5 mm; upper set of trifurcate in distal 1.0 mm; Calyx color:
Variable with light intensity, abaxial between RHS 146D and RHS
N144A with veins of nearest RHS 146C; adaxial between RHS N144A and
RHS 146C with darker veins of RHS 146B toward apex; Bracts: Each
verticil subtended by two opposite nearly lanceolate bracts; apex
acuminate, base truncate, margin entire and ciliolate; coarsely
wavy to bent downward toward apex; glabrous above and below; bract
size up to 12.0 mm long and 7.0 mm wide, decreasing distally; Bract
color: Adaxial surface nearest RHS 146B with midrib and base
nearest RHS 145C; abaxial between RHS 146C and RHS 146D; Peduncles:
Raceme; quadrangular in cross section; about 15 per plant; strong;
upright; to about 55 cm tall and 5.0 mm across; puberulent to
glandular; branches in lower two to four nodes, upright at 60
degrees above horizontal or greater; branches to about 20.0 cm long
and 3.0 mm across; average internode distance about 5.0 cm;
Peduncle color: Nearest RHS 146B along longitudinal center and
corners nearest RHS N144A; Pedicels: Cylindrical; puberulent to
glandular; about 1.5 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter; puberulent to
glandular; nearly horizontal at flower anthesis; Pedicel color:
Nearest RHS N144A; Disease and pest resistance: Plants of Salvia
`Snow Kiss` perform best with adequate moisture and good drainage
and are hardy from USDA zone 3 to 8. Resistant to diseases and
pests beyond that common to Salvia has not been noted.
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