U.S. patent number PP33,582 [Application Number 17/300,047] was granted by the patent office on 2021-10-26 for echinacea plant named `frankly scarlet`.
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.
United States Patent |
PP33,582 |
Hansen |
October 26, 2021 |
Echinacea plant named `Frankly Scarlet`
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named `Frankly
Scarlet`, with fragrant inflorescences on strong well-branched
stems above dark green foliage. The inflorescences produce single
whorls of broadly-overlapping, long, broad, scarlet-orange, ray
florets that lighten with maturity to coral-orange. The new plant
is vigorous and produces a compact habit and flowers from
mid-summer to fall frost. The new plant is attractive and suitable
as a potted plant, fur the landscape, and for cut flower
arrangements.
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: |
78218836 |
Appl.
No.: |
17/300,047 |
Filed: |
February 23, 2021 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/428 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/1448 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/14 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/428 |
Primary Examiner: Robinson; Keith O.
Claims
I claim:
1. A new and distinct ornamental cultivar of Echinacea plant named
`Frankly Scarlet` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical denomination: Echinacea hybrid.
Cultivar designation: `Frankly Scarlet`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form
of a photograph and brief description was on a website operated by
Walters Gardens, Inc. on Dec. 1, 2019. Echinacea `Frankly Scarlet`
was also listed with a photograph and brief description in the
"Walters Gardens 20-21 Catalog" distributed first on May 20, 2020.
The claimed plant was first sold on Mar. 2, 2020 by Walters
Gardens, Inc., who obtained the plant and all information relating
thereto, from the inventor. No plants of Echinacea `Frankly
Scarlet` 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 the new and distinct cultivar of
Coneflower from the genus Echinacea and given the cultivar name
`Frankly Scarlet`. The new plant was the result of a cross on Aug.
8, 2016 by the inventor between the proprietary unreleased hybrid
known only by the breeder code 15-29-12 (not patented) and the
proprietary unreleased hybrid known only by the breeder code as
15-29-13 (not patented) at a wholesale perennial nursery in
Zeeland, Mich. This single seedling selected was evaluated first in
trials in the summer of 2017 at the same nursery and assigned the
breeder code of 16-86-12. Echinacea `Frankly Scarlet` has been
asexually propagated at the same nursery by basal crown division
since 2017 and also using careful shoot tip tissue culture
procedures and found to reproduce plants that exhibit all the
characteristics identical to the original plant.
Echinacea `Frankly Scarlet` is distinct from all other Coneflowers
known to the inventor. The nearest comparison cultivars are: `Solar
Flare` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,133, `Balsomsed` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
23,105, `Balsomanita` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 30,138, `Fourth of July`
U.S. Plant Pat. No. 26,075 and `Tomato Soup` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
19,427.
The female parent plant, 15-29-12, was taller with less branching
habit, with less overlapping ray petals of more orangish color. The
male parent plant, 15-29-13 was taller with less branching habit,
with less overlapping ray petals of more orangish color. Further
comparison with the parents is not possible as neither plants nor
photography of the parents were maintained.
`Solar Flare` has larger inflorescences on taller plants, with
narrower ray florets that are more purplish-red. `Balsomsed` is
shorter in habit, the inflorescences are smaller, the ray florets
are more vivid red when first opening and less pinkish when mature
and the foliage is not as dark green. `Balsomanita` is smaller in
habit, slightly smaller inflorescences with ray florets of dark
purplish-red. `Fourth of July` has smaller inflorescences on
smaller plants and the ray petals are a purplish-red. `Tomato Soup`
has a slightly taller habit, the inflorescences have fewer ray
florets with less overlapping.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Echinacea `Frankly Scarlet` has not been evaluated under all
possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary with
variations in environment including: temperature, available
sunlight intensity and duration, nutrients, water, etc. without a
change in the genotype of the plant. The new plant is distinct from
its parents and all other Echinacea known to the applicant in the
following combined traits: 1. Large, broad, fragrant inflorescences
with single whorl of ray florets that stay mostly horizontal once
open; 2. Ray petals are wide and broadly-overlapping; 3. Ray petals
are bright scarlet-orange and lighten with age to coral-orange; 4.
Vigorous growth and excellent habit with good branching; 5. Large,
dark-green, lanceolate foliage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of `Frankly Scarlet` demonstrate the overall
appearance of the plant including the unique traits. The drawings
of the new plant are of a two-year-old plant grown in full-sun
trial garden in Zeeland, Mich. The colors are as accurate as
reasonably possible with color reproductions. Some slight variation
of color may occur as a result of lighting quality, intensity,
wavelength, direction or reflection.
FIG. 1 shows the habit of the new plant in flower.
FIG. 2 shows a close up of some inflorescences of the new
plant.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT
The following description of Echinacea `Frankly Scarlet` is based
on observations of two-year-old specimens grown in a full-sun trial
garden with supplemental water and fertilizer in Zeeland, Mich. The
new plant has not been tested in all environments and some
phenotypic differences may occur with different environments
without, however, any change in genotype. The color descriptions
are based on the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society
Colour Chart except where common dictionary descriptions are used.
Parentage: The female or seed parent is the proprietary unreleased
hybrid 15-29-12 and the male or pollen parent is the proprietary
unreleased hybrid 15-29-13; The parents are a complex set of
crosses including `Solar Flare`, `Little Annie` (not patented) and
`Butterfly Kisses` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 24,458. Plant habit:
Multi-stemmed, heavily-branched, hardy herbaceous perennial,
flowering to about 70.0 cm tall and 54.0 cm wide; Growth rate:
Vigorous, finishing in 4 liter containers in about 2 months during
the summer; Roots: Cream-colored, finely branched; color nearest
RHS NN155B depending on soil; Foliage: Alternate; lanceolate; acute
apex; attenuate base; margin serrulate, micro-ciliolate; puberulent
abaxial and adaxial; to about 12.0 cm long and 5.0 cm wide
decreasing distally, average about 9.5 cm long and 3.8 cm wide;
variegation absent; Leaf color: Young leaves adaxial between RHS
144A and RHS 146D, abaxial nearest RHS 147B; mature leaves adaxial
between RHS 139A and RHS NN137A, abaxial nearest RHS 137B; Foliage
fragrance: Lightly herbal; Venation: Pinnate; with two primary
arcuate veins on both sides of the midrib; abaxial midrib and veins
costate; glabrous adaxial, sparsely hirsutulous abaxial; Vein
color: Young and mature adaxial primary veins and midrib between
RHS 148D and RHS 145C, primary veins nearest RHS 145A; young
abaxial midrib nearest RHS 148D and primary veins nearest RHS 147C;
mature adaxial midrib nearest RHS 148C, primary veins nearest RHS
NN137A; mature abaxial midrib nearest RHS 148C, primary veins
nearest RHS 147A; Petiole: Concavo-convex, strigillose adaxial and
sparsely puberulent to strigillose abaxial; to about 6.0 cm long
and 3.0 mm wide on lowest leaves and decreasing in length to nearly
sessile distally; adaxial color nearest RHS 148D in center with
margins between RHS 139A and RHS NN137A, and abaxial center nearest
RHS 148C with margins nearest RHS 137B; Peduncle: Densely
puberulent to strigillose; cylindrical; strong stiff; to about 68.0
cm long and 9.0 mm diameter at base; quantity per plant about ten;
flowering in upper 24.0 cm; Peduncle color: Between RHS 146A and
RHS 137B; Branches: Cylindrical, puberulent to strigillose; tightly
angled to main stem to about 65.degree. above horizontal: to about
28.0 cm long and 5.0 mm diameter; color between RHS 146A and RHS
137B; Inflorescence: Bracteate head, aggregate of achene; with
single whorl of distinct, imbricate, ligulate, ray florets and
central disk florets in a pappus; flowering mid-summer to fall
frost; initial inflorescence largest, to about 10.2 cm wide and 4.5
cm tall, average about 9.0 cm wide and 4.0 cm tall, with cones 4.6
cm across and 3.5 cm tall; Inflorescence fragrance: Lightly honey
sweet; Flower persistence: Ray florets remaining affective in color
for 10 to 14 days depending on temperatures, cone persistent and
effective through drying on plant into winter; Involucre: With
numerous bracts; to about 78 per inflorescence in 4 whorls; arcuate
downward toward peduncle; Involucre bracts: Linear; narrowly acute
apex; truncate base; micro-ciliolate margin; adaxial glabrous and
lustrous; abaxial micro-puberulent; recurved greater than 90
degrees; average about 14.0 mm long and 3.0 mm across; Involucre
bract color: Adaxial center nearest RHS 138A and margins between
nearest RHS NN137B; abaxial center and margin nearest RHS 138C;
Inflorescence buds with ray florets vertical and still enrolled:
About 32.0 mm across and 30.0 mm tall; ray floret color nearest RHS
76D distally and between RHS 70A and RHS 71A proximally, with chaff
portions nearest RHS 187B; Ray florets: Zygomorphic; arrangement in
single whorl, broadly-overlapping, typically imbricate; lanceolate;
apex emarginated with typically two notches to 1.0 mm deep; base
cuneate; margin entire; adaxial and abaxial matte and glabrous; 23
to 32 per inflorescence, typically more with initial flowering;
opening to horizontal, drooping to about 30 degrees below
horizontal with maturity; sterile; ligule to 40.0 mm long and 18.0
mm wide near middle, average size 38.0 mm long, 16.5 mm wide
tapering to 2 mm wide in basal 3 mm; typically two thickened veins
raised; twisting or enrolling absent; Ray ligule color: When first
horizontal -- adaxial nearest RHS 44A, abaxial nearest RHS N155B
distally and proximally nearest RHS 54D, basal 3.0 mm nearest RHS
144A; before dehiscence -- adaxial between RHS 51B and RHS 50B and
abaxial nearest RHS 155C with adaxial and abaxial base nearest RHS
186D; Disc florets: About 300 to 400 per head; actinomorphic;
perfect; synandrous; produced in raised dome, to about 4.6 cm
across and 4.0 cm tall; individual florets to about 7.5 mm long to
exserted style and 2.0 mm diameter; Corolla: Fused forming tube;
florets near outer perimeter of disc to about 7.0 mm long and 1.5
mm wide, near disc center florets about 6.0 mm long and 1.5 mm
wide; fused in basal 6.0 mm, free in distal 1.0 mm; individual
tepals about 0.7 mm wide at fusion; acute apex; entire margin;
adaxial and abaxial surfaces slightly lustrous; Corolla tube color:
Adaxial and abaxial nearest RHS 183A in distal 2.0 mm, adaxial and
abaxial proximal 5.0 mm nearest RHS 169B; Disk floret androecium:
Five; synandrous; Staminal column: About 1.0 mm wide and protrudes
from corolla tube about 1.5 mm; five connate stamens; Anthers:
Fused, about 3.0 mm long and 0.7 mm diameter; color nearest RHS
200A; Filaments: Five; attached to column; thin, about 0.1 mm
diameter and about 1.0 mm long; color nearest RHS 155D; Pollen:
Globose, abundant, less 0.1 mm in diameter, RHS 17B; Gynoecium:
Single; to about 7.0 mm long; Style: About 4.0 mm long and 0.2 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS 187B; Stigma: Bifid; reflexed about
180.degree.; about 1.5 mm long and 0.2 mm diameter; color nearest
RHS 187B; Seed: Achene; apex truncate to funiculus, with four main
pappus; about 5.5 mm long and 2 mm across; funiculus about 1.0 mm
across and 0.5 mm long; pappus 1.0 mm long and 0.5 mm across; Seed
color: Between RHS 199B and RHSN 199A; Receptacle spines: One per
disk florets; acicular; apex acute; base attenuate; lustrous;
glabrous; to 15.0 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter; Spine color: Adaxial
and abaxial base nearest RHS 146D, middle portion nearest RHS 44A,
distally nearest RHS 183B; becoming nearest RHS 183A with flower
maturity and drying to nearest RHS 200A; Culture and performance:
The new plant performs well and with stiff stems remains upright
even when exposed to heavy rains and high winds. Disease and pest
resistance: The new plant has not been shown to have any disease or
pest resistance or susceptibility beyond that common to Coneflower
plants.
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