U.S. patent number PP34,130 [Application Number 17/300,860] was granted by the patent office on 2022-04-12 for monarda plant named `leading lady razzberry`.
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 |
PP34,130 |
Hansen |
April 12, 2022 |
Monarda plant named `Leading Lady Razzberry`
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid
ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry`
with deep-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant
foliage, dense flower heads nearly completely covering the plant in
peak bloom with bright, raspberry-purple flowers with darker
purplish-red spots. The plant habit is short, compact and
winter-hardy, making the new plant useful in the landscape as a
specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
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: |
1000006037367 |
Appl.
No.: |
17/300,860 |
Filed: |
November 29, 2021 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/455 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/50 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/50 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/455 |
Primary Examiner: Bell; Kent L
Claims
I claim:
1. A new and distinct hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named
Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry`, as herein described and
illustrated.
Description
Botanical designation and cultivar denomination:
Botanical classification: Monarda hybrid.
Variety denomination: `Leading Lady Razzberry`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosure of the claimed plant was on Dec.
1, 2020 the claimed plant was displayed with a non-enabling
photograph and brief description in a website operated by Walters
Gardens, Inc., and on May 21, 2021 as a non-enabling photograph and
brief description in the 2021-2022 Catalog by Walters Gardens,
Inc., who obtained the plant and all information relating thereto,
from the inventor. The first sales of the new plant were on May 3,
2021 from Walters Gardens, Inc. to Chrissy's Greenhouse and Home
Nursery. No plants of Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry` 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 the new and distinct cultivar of
Bee Balm, botanically known as Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry`,
and hereinafter also referred to solely by the cultivar `Leading
Lady Razzberry` or the "new plant." Monarda `Leading Lady
Razzberry` was the result of a controlled pollination in the summer
of Jul. 24, 2014 in trial garden at a wholesale perennial nursery
in Zeeland, Mich., USA. The female parent is a proprietary,
unnamed, unreleased hybrid known as 12-21-4 (not patented) and the
specific male parent is a proprietary, unnamed, unreleased hybrid
known as 12-59-7 (not patented). The new plant was separated out
for further evaluation in the summer of 2016 in the full sun trial
gardens of the same nursery and assigned the breeder code 14-08-1.
The new plant is the result of a planned breeding program of the
inventor to produce new colors of flowers with increased mildew
resistance and improved compact habit. The new plant has been
asexually propagated since 2016 by division and by basal stem
cuttings at the same nursery in the greenhouses in Zeeland, Mich.,
and the subsequent generations of asexually propagated plants found
to be stable and identical to the original selection.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLANT
Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry` is unique from its parents and all
other Bee Balm plants known to the inventor. The nearest comparison
cultivars known to the inventor are: `Pardon My Cerise` U.S. Plant
Pat. No. 9,234 `Pardon My Purple` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,170,
`Cherry Pops` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 27,618 and `Leading Lady Pink`
U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 17/300,361, copending.
`Pardon My Cerise` has deeper cherry-red flowers and the habit is
slightly taller. `Pardon My Purple` has flowers of a fuchsia-purple
color and is slightly taller in habit. `Cherry Pops` has a taller
habit and the flower color is cherry-red. `Leading Lady Razzberry`
flowers earlier than the three above listed comparison cultivars.
`Leading Lady Pink` has a similar habit and flowering period, but
the flowers are bright pink with lighter interiors that show off
the darker purplish-red spotting. The leaves of `Pardon My Cerise`
and `Cherry Pops` are slightly wider.
The female parent is more open and taller in habit and later to
flower than the new plant and darker pink in flower color. The male
parent has a shorter habit and the flowers are more
purple-colored.
Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry` is distinct from all Bee Balm
plants known to the inventor. The following are traits of the new
plant that in combination distinguish it from all other Bee Balm
known to the inventor: 1. Short, compact, clumping, upright mound
that is winter-hardy habit; 2. Deep-green, moderately-glossy,
powdery mildew-tolerant foliage; 3. Leaves and bracts below the
flowers develop a purplish cast; 4. Compact, bright,
raspberry-purple flowers with darker purplish-red spots; 5.
Flowering over a five-week-long period beginning early June; 6.
Flowering in dense verticils that nearly completely cover the plant
in peak bloom.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits of
Monarda `Leading Lady Razzberry` and the overall appearance of the
plant at a nursery in Zeeland, Mich. 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.
FIG. 1 shows the habit of the new plant in full flower at
three-years-old in the full sun trial garden,
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower and buds of two-year-old
plant in a partially shaded greenhouse.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following descriptions and color references are based on the
2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except
where common dictionary terms are used. Monarda `Leading Lady
Razzberry` 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
maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The
following observations and size descriptions are based on two and
three-year-old plants grown in a trial garden at a nursery in
Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental fertilizer and water as needed.
Botanical classification: Monarda hybrid; Parentage: The female
(seed) parent is 12-21-4, an unreleased proprietary hybrid; the
male (pollen) parent is 12-59-7, an unreleased, proprietary hybrid;
Plant habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial, dense, upright mound,
producing multiple stems spreading by short rhizomes near the base
of the stems; foliage up to 30.0 cm tall, flowering to 35.0 cm tall
and 60.0 cm wide; flowering begins late spring in Michigan and
continues for about 5 weeks; Propagation: Stem cuttings; Time to
produce finished crop in 3.8-liter pots: About 7 to 9 weeks;
moderate rate of growth; Root: Fine, fibrous and freely branching;
color creamy white to tan depending on soil type; Leaves: Simple;
lanceolate; opposite; margin serrated and ciliolate; puberulent
above and below; moderately lustrous adaxial, matte to slightly
lustrous abaxial; narrowly acute apex; cordate to rounded base; to
about 5.7 cm long and 3.2 cm wide, average about 4.8 cm long and
2.1 cm wide near base; Leaf color: Young expanding leaves adaxial
between RHS 138A and RHS 138B with a blush of nearest RHS 187B
around edges, abaxial nearest RHS 146B with moderate to strong
blush of nearest RHS 187B; mature leaves adaxial nearest RHS 139A
with slight anthocyanins blush of nearest RHS 187A in the distal
leaves, abaxial nearest RHS 147B with slight to moderate
anthocyanins blush of nearest RHS 187B in the distal leaves;
Foliage fragrance: Pleasant lemony-herbal; Veins: Pinnate; glabrous
and slightly sunken adaxial, micro-pubescent and costate abaxial;
Vein color: Adaxial midrib nearest RHS 145C and lateral pinnate
veins and secondary veins RHS 145B near center and distally nearest
RHS 138B, with increasing blush on midrib and veins of nearest RHS
N186C with increased ultraviolet exposure; abaxial midrib variable,
nearest RHS 145C and lateral pinnate veins nearest RHS 147C and
secondary veins nearest RHS 137B; Petiole: Micro-puberulent,
slightly concaved above; to about 4.0 mm long and 3.3 mm across at
base, shorter distally; Petiole color: Adaxial nearest RHS 146C and
abaxial nearest RHS 146D with slight anthocyanin blush of nearest
RHS 187B; Stems: Quadrangular; puberulent; about 4.0 mm across at
base; about 60 per plant; naturally branched at upper nodes;
average 2.7 cm between nodes, greater distally; 9 to 11 nodes per
stem; average length about 30 cm; Stem color: Nearest RHS 147D with
anthocyanin expression increasing distally to moderate blush of
nearest N186C; nodes same color as surrounding stem; Flowers:
Single, bilabiate flowers arranged in mostly terminal verticils
forming globular head inflorescence about 74.0 mm across and 40.0
mm tall, opening from the center and progressing outwardly and
down; attitude outwardly to upwardly; individual flowers to about
38.0 mm long to exserted stigma, corolla to about 36.0 mm long,
16.0 mm tall and about 5.0 mm across; individual flowers persisting
about 5 days in Michigan; numerous, about 150 to 200 flowers per
terminal head, fewer per axillary head; 80 inflorescences with open
flowers at one time; Flower fragrance: Moderately spicy; Buds one
to two days prior to opening: Narrowly oblanceolate, arcuate
downward; about 28.0 mm long and 3.0 mm across and 5.5 mm tall; Bud
color: Basal 2.0 mm nearest RHS 155C, distal portion nearest RHS
71A; Petals: Bilabiate; arcuate downward; basal 20.0 mm fused into
tube; split in two in the distal 16.0 mm; abaxial glandular to
puberulent, adaxial glabrous; self-cleaning; Upper labium: Folded
in middle and distal regions, about 15.0 mm long from fusion to
acute apex, 3.0 mm tall and 3.0 mm across above fusion; Lower
labium: About 17.0 mm long from fusion to apex, apex comprising
three lobes including two side lobes about 1.0 mm long and 2.0 mm
across with rounded apex; center lobe bent upwardly at base, about
5.0 mm long with emarginate apex in the distal 0.5 mm; main portion
with darker spots between 0.5 mm and 1.2 mm across; Petal color:
Upper labium adaxial surface between RHS 63A and RHS 63B, abaxial
between RHS 61A and RHS 61B; lower labium adaxial surface nearest
RHS 61B with spots nearest RHS 61A, abaxial nearest RHS 61B with
spots showing through from adaxial surface of nearest RHS 61A;
corolla adaxial tube proximal 5.0 mm nearest RHS NN155C and
distally nearest RHS 63B, abaxial tube proximal 5.0 mm between RHS
155D and RHS NN155B and distal portion nearest RHS 64B and
lightening to nearest RHS 63C before dropping; Androecium: Two;
adnate inner corolla tube in basal portion; Filaments.--Two;
distally curved downward; adnate to the inner corolla tube in the
basal 18.0 mm and free in the distal 18.0 mm; about 0.5 mm
diameter; color in free portion between RHS 70B and RHS 71C, color
in adnate portion nearest RHS 69B. Anther.--Oblong elliptic;
dorsifixed; longitudinal; fused together; 3.0 mm long by 1.0 mm
wide; color nearest RHS 72A. Pollen.--Abundant, elliptic to
globose, less than 0.1 mm; color nearest RHS NN155A. Gynoecium:
One; superior; about 37.0 mm long; exserted about 2.0 mm beyond
upper labium when mature; Style: Cylindrical; glabrous; about 33.0
mm long and about 0.3 mm diameter; arcuate along upper labium;
color nearest RHS 64A in distal 5.0 mm transitioning to nearest RHS
NN155D in middle and basal portion; Stigma: Unevenly bifid in the
distal 1.5 mm and about 0.2 mm in diameter; color nearest RHS 64A;
Ovary: Conical; about 1.0 mm tall by 0.75 mm diameter; color
nearest RHS 145D; Calyx: Tubular to campanulate; consisting of five
fused sepals; about 8.5 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter at apex;
Sepals: Five; narrowly acute apex; fused in basal 7.0 mm forming
calyx tube adpressed to corolla tube, free in distal 1.5 mm; margin
micro-serrulate; about 8.5 mm long and 1.0 mm across at fusion;
glabrous adaxial and abaxial; persistent; Sepal color: Adaxial and
abaxial basal 2.0 mm nearest RHS 145D, middle adaxial portion
nearest RHS 145B with veins nearest RHS 146C, middle abaxial
portion nearest RHS 146D with veins nearest RHS 146C; adaxial and
abaxial free portion between RHS N186A and RHS N186B; Foliar
bracts: Typically two sets of five to seven large bracts below
inflorescence; proximal set deltoid, distal set lanceolate; apex
narrowly acute; base sessile and truncate; margin entire and
micro-ciliolate; glabrous adaxial, puberulent abaxial; mostly flat;
proximal set about 16.0 mm long and 12.0 mm wide, distal set about
11.0 mm long and 4.0 mm wide; Foliar bract color: Both sets
similar, adaxial and abaxial tube portion nearest RHS 137A with
moderate to strong blushing of nearest RHS N186C; Peduncle:
Pubescent, stiff, strong, erect, quadrangular; to about 3.0 mm
across above leaves and average 40.0 mm long above the last set of
leaves; about 80 per plant at one time; naturally branched at
nodes; Peduncle color: RHS 147A with moderate to heavy blush of RHS
N186C; Pedicel: About 2.0 mm long and 0.8 mm diameter; color
nearest RHS 145B; Fruit: Single, glabrous, lustrous, ellipsoidal
nutlet; about 1.2 mm long and 0.7 mm wide; color nearest RHS 200C;
Hardiness: The new plant grows best with plenty of moisture and
adequate drainage; hardy to at least from USDA zone 4 through 8.
Disease and pest resistance: Demonstrated greater than average
powdery mildew tolerance in side-by-side comparison with other
Monarda.
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