Echinacea plant named ‘Kim's Mop Head’

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2001-07-30

2003-02-11

Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)

Plants

Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant

Plant Patent

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PP013560

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE PLANT
The present invention relates to the new and distinct Coneflower plant, botanically known as
Echinacea purpurea
(L.) Moench hybrid and herein after referred to by the cultivar name ‘Kim's Mop Head’. The stated cultivar is valued for its unique and long-lasting white flower display and short compact plant habit.
Echinacea purpurea
‘Kim's Mop Head’ is a selection of a non-induced whole plant mutation from a nursery propagated batch of Echinacea purpurea ‘Kim's Knee High’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,242, discovered in one-gallon flowering pots by the inventor, Pierre Bennerup, at a nursery in Kensington, Conn. in the summer of 1996. ‘Kim's Mop Head’ has been propagated at a nursery in Kensington, Conn. by both tissue culture and root cuttings, and has demonstrated that the plant maintains its unique characteristics and is capable of reproducing identical individuals in successive generations. The claimed plant retains its distinctive characteristics and reproduces true to type in successive generations in both of the above-mentioned propagation methods.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Echinacea purpurea
is one of two species in the genus. It is an American native plant found in the eastern United States region normally bounded by Michigan and Oklahoma on the west and Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia on the east. There are only a few white flowering varieties, including: ‘Alba’ (not patented), ‘Cygnet White’ (not patented). ‘White Lustre’ (not patented), and ‘White Swan’ (not patented). Among the purple or wine-colored flowering forms, one,
Rudbeckia purpurea
plant U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,414 (now known as
Echinacea purpurea
‘Robert Bloom’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,414), is patented and another ‘Kim's Knee High’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,242, has a more pink flower. The white flowering forms, ‘Alba’, ‘White Lustre’, and ‘White Swan’ are seed propagated, taller varieties, and like the species, flower in heights varying between 65 and 150 cm tall. One shorter variety,
Echinacea purpurea
‘Cygnet White’, is a selection with white horizontal ray petals that reaches 52 cm in height. Other short, purple-flowering forms exist, such as ‘Nana’ (not patented) in Great Britain, and ‘Rosenelf’ (not patented) in Germany, and ‘Kim's Knee High’ (patent pending by another individual) with its pinkish red flower color. ‘Kim's Mop Head’ differs from all other Echinacea with a unique combination of traits. The plant is short and compact, flowering at no more than 40 cm. The flowers are pure white, and the petals droop as the flowers mature.


REFERENCES:
patent: PP12242 (2001-12-01), Hawks
UPOV ROM GTITM JOUVE Computer Database GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Kim's Mop head’.

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