U.S. patent number PP33,652 [Application Number 16/602,730] was granted by the patent office on 2021-11-16 for salvia plant named `white profusion`.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Waters Gardens, Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Hans A Hansen. Invention is credited to Hans A Hansen.
United States Patent |
PP33,652 |
Hansen |
November 16, 2021 |
Salvia plant named `White Profusion`
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named
`White Profusion` characterized by pure, clean, white flowers
beginning late spring and continuing through late summer if
deadheaded with densely arranged in verticils with light
green-colored calyces. The new plant has a compact habit with
stiff, upright, heavily-branched stems with very strong tendency to
repeat when deadheaded, a strong vigorous growth rate and rugose
gray-green foliage. It is useful for landscaping specimens, en
masse or as a container plant.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
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Assignee: |
Waters Gardens, Inc. (Zeeland,
MI)
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Family
ID: |
1000005415872 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/602,730 |
Filed: |
November 26, 2019 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/475 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/508 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/50 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/475 |
Primary Examiner: Grunberg; Anne Marie
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named `White
Profusion` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical denomination: Salvia nemorosa (Linnaeus).
Cultivar designation: `White Profusion`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first public disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form of a
sale, was made by Walters Gardens, Inc. on Jul. 8, 2019. Prior to
that, on Dec. 1, 2018 the claimed plant was displayed with a
photograph and brief description in a website operated by Walters
Gardens, Inc., and on May 29, 2019 the new plant was promoted in
the "Walters Gardens 19-20 Catalog". Walters Gardens, Inc. obtained
the new plant and all information relating thereto, from the
inventor. No plants of Salvia `White Profusion` 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 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 `White Profusion` or as the new plant. The new plant was
selected from a cross between the female parent, an unreleased
proprietary hybrid known only by the breeder code 12-60-3 (not
patented) and an unknown male on Jun. 11, 2014 at a wholesale
perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. Seeds were collected in the
summer of 2014 and the new plant begun the trial phase in the
summer of 2016 and eventually assigned the breeder code 14-27-2
prior to assigning a cultivar name.
The new Salvia was further evaluated and asexually propagated first
by division in 2016 and propagated by basal cuttings taken at the
same nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA in July of 2017. Evaluation of
these and further cutting grown plants shows that Salvia `White
Profusion` continues to be stable and produce true to type plants
in successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of Salvia `White Profusion` can be most closely compared to
Salvia `Bumblesnow` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,399, `Snowhill`
(`Schneehuegel`) (not patented) and `Sensation White` (not
patented). `Bumblesnow` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,399 is shorter and
more compact with slightly less reblooming potential. `Snow Hill`
(`Schneehugel`) (not patented) is taller and looser in habit.
`Sensation White` is shorter with less dense flowering. `White
Profusion` has better repeat flowering than all of the above
comparison cultivars. The female parent has blue flowers and taller
in habit.
The following characteristics in combination distinguish Salvia
`White Profusion` as a new and distinct cultivar from all other
cultivars known to the inventor: 1. Pure, clean, white flowers
densely arranged in dense verticils; 2. Stiff, upright,
heavily-branched, dense, flower stems; 3. Very strong repeat
flowering when deadheaded; 4. Compact, rounded, strong, vigorous
and winter-hardy habit; 5. Rugose gray-green foliage; 6. Calyces of
light green.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits and
the overall appearance of Salvia `White Profusion`. 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.
FIG. 1 shows the plant habit in full flower in a landscape.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower scapes 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 `White Profusion`
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
and in a greenhouse at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland,
Mich. and greenhouse forced two-year-old plants. Plants were given
supplemental water and fertilizer. Botanical classification: Salvia
nemorosa (Linnaeus); Parentage: Female or seed parent the
unreleased hybrid 12-60-3; the male or pollen parent is unknown;
Plant habit: Winter-hardy herbaceous perennial; multi-stemmed,
compact, rounded, with basal and cauline foliage, and flowers in
several, tightly-arranged verticils on dense, highly-branched,
upright racemes displayed above foliage; flowering to about 47.0 cm
tall and about 50.0 cm wide at the fullest point about 20 cm above
soil; with cauline foliage below branches; 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; typically nearest RHS 161D; Foliage:
Opposite, simple, rugose, lanceolate; margin bi-crenulate; glabrous
and matte abaxial and adaxial surfaces; acute apex and base cordate
to truncate; leaf blades about 8.5 cm long and 3.5 cm across,
decreasing in size distally; average about 6.0 cm long and 2.3 cm
across; faint sage fragrance; leaf variegation absent; Foliage
color: Adaxial surface between RHS NN137C and RHS 137A; abaxial
surface nearest RHS 147B; Venation: Reticulate; impressed on
adaxial side and costate on abaxial side; abaxial midrib puberulent
secondary veins glabrous; adaxial puberulent; Vein color: Adaxial
midrib between RHS 146D and RHS 145D, secondary veins nearest RHS
148D; abaxial midrib nearest RHS 145D and primary and secondary
veins nearest RHS 148D; Petiole: Concavo-convex; puberulent adaxial
and abaxial and ciliolate margin distally and ciliate proximally;
to about 3.5 cm long and 5.0 mm wide, average 3.0 cm long and 4.0
mm wide at base; Petiole color: Adaxial and abaxial surfaces
nearest 145B in center with margin nearest RHS 138A; Inflorescence
description: Perfect, bilabiate, 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 1.5 mm, greater
proximally and less distally; self-cleaning, petals not persistent;
flowering beginning late spring for about six weeks and repeating
though late summer if scapes removed after flowering; total length
about 43 cm long, flowering in upper 15 cm and branching to about 7
cm wide; average internode distance about 6 mm; number of flowers
per node or verticil about 12 in lowest nodes, decreasing distally;
Inflorescence attitude: With midline projected about 30 degree
angle above horizontal, hood petal about 55 degree angle above
horizontal and lower lip about 20 degrees above horizontal; Flower
longevity: About four days on the plant or as cut flower;
Fragrance: None detected under present growing conditions; Flower
buds one day prior to anthesis: Shape is rounded on top and
slightly concave below, with rounded apex; micro-puberulent; about
9.0 mm long, 3.0 mm tall and 2.0 mm wide; Bud color: Exposed dorsal
petal nearest RHS 157D, ventral petal nearest RHS 157D; abaxial
calyx nearest RHS 138A with veins nearest RHS 137B; Flowers:
Bilabiate corolla with arcuate hooded upper lip and tri-lobed lower
lip; corolla about 13.0 mm long, 5.0 mm tall and 3.5 mm wide fused
into tube in the proximal 5.0 mm; clustered at verticils with up to
12 flowers per verticil; Petals: Bilabiate corolla; upper hood
petal and flattened side to side vertically, with emarginate apex
and base fused with labium; Hood (upper) petal: Minutely puberulent
to glabrous abaxial, glabrous adaxial; about 11.0 mm long, 2.0 mm
tall and 1.5 mm across; Labium (lower) petal: Consisting of three
lobes, two proximal lobes projecting outwardly, about 2.0 mm long
and 1.0 mm wide at base with rounded apex; center lobe cupped, with
rounded emarginate apex, erose margin; about 5.0 mm long, 2.0 mm
deep and 5.0 mm wide if stretched, with a 1.5 mm apical notch at
apex; center lobe slightly concaved upwards; total labium about 8.0
mm long, 3.5 mm wide at the widest portion across middle of central
lobe and 3.0 mm tall; Petal color: Abaxial hood nearest RHS NN155D
and adaxial hood petal nearest RHS NN155D; lower labium petal
proximal lobes abaxial nearest RHS NN155D, and adaxial nearest RHS
NN155D and center lobe abaxial nearest RHS NN155D, and adaxial
nearest RHS NN155D; Androecium: Two, fused with labium, arcuate
within hood petal except when triggered by pollinator;
Filament.--Glabrous, fused about 4.0 mm from base of labium petal;
curved around inside of hood petal; about 2.5 mm long and less than
0.3 mm diameter with a 1.0 mm trip mechanism at base; color nearest
RHS NN155D. Anther.--Glabrous, oblong, about 1.5 mm long and 0.5 mm
diameter; longitudinal, basifixed; color nearest RHS N187A.
Pollen.--Nearest RHS 13A. Gynoecium: One, superior; arcuate around
inside of hood petal; Style.--About 12.0 mm long and about 0.3 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS NN155D. Stigma.--Bifurcate and arcuate
in the terminal 1.5 mm; apex acute; color nearest RHS NN155D.
Ovary.--Superior; color nearest RHS N144A. Fruit: Nutlet, one to
four per flower; rounded, about 1.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS
202A; Calyx: Campanulate; consisting of five sepals, three upper
and two lower; 6.5 mm long and 2.5 mm across at apex; Sepals: Five;
fused in basal 3.5 mm; lower set bifid in distal 2.5 mm, upper set
trifid in distal 0.5 mm; tube about 6.5 mm long and 4.5 mm tall at
mouth and 2.5 mm wide; glandular abaxial and glabrous adaxial;
Sepal color: Adaxial nearest blend between RHS 145C and RHS 146D,
with veins nearest RHS 146B and distally nearest 146B; abaxial base
nearest RHS 144A with veins and distal blushing of nearest RHS
138B; Bracts: Each verticil subtended by two opposite ovate to
deltoid bracts; apex typically acuminate; base truncate; margin
crenate and ciliolate; coarsely wavy to bent downward toward apex;
glabrous above and pubescent below; bract size up to 9.0 mm long
and 7.0 mm wide, decreasing distally; Bract color: Adaxial surface
between RHS NN137C and RHS 137A; abaxial surface nearest RHS 147B;
Peduncles: Raceme; pubescent; quadrangular in cross section; about
18 per plant; strong; upright; to about 47.0 cm tall and 4.0 mm
across at base; flowering in upper 15.0 cm and to about 7.0 cm
across with branches; compound branches in lower two to four nodes,
upright at 55 to 60 degrees above horizontal; branches to about
22.0 cm long and 3.0 mm across; average internode distance about
6.0 cm; Peduncle color: Nearest RHS 146C; Pedicels: Cylindrical;
puberulent to glandular; about 0.5 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter;
slightly upright to nearly horizontal at flower anthesis and with
seed set; Pedicel color: Nearest RHS 146C; Disease and pest
resistance: Resistant to diseases and pests beyond that common to
Salvia has not been noted. Specific diseases have not been tested,
but not commonly browsed by Cervinea or Oryctolagus. Growth
recommendations: Plants of Salvia `White Profusion` perform best
with adequate moisture and good drainage and are hardy from USDA
zone 3 to 8.
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