US Patent Issued to Walters Gardens on June 9 for "Penstemon plant named 'Dark Amethyst'" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. PP37,459, issued on June 9, was assigned to Walters Gardens Inc (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Penstemon plant named 'Dark Amethyst'" was invented by Hans A. Hansen (Zeeland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The new and distinct cultivar of Penstemon plant named 'Dark Amethyst' with rounded mound with upright heavily-branched peduncles producing dark reddish-purple petals with light purple throats beginning in early summer for about four weeks and repeating in late summer if deadheaded. The lanceolate foliage is bluish-green, and the plant is winter hardy to at least USDA zone 6. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen plant, en masse...