Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2002-03-22
2003-02-18
Bell, Kent L. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP013569
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Verbena hybrida
cultivar ‘Kieverstar’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant, botanically known as
Verbena hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Kieverstar’.
The new Verbena was discovered by the Inventor in 1997 as a naturally-occurring branch mutation of an unnamed
Verbena hybrida
seedling selection in a greenhouse in Venhuizen, The Netherlands. The new Verbena was selected by the Inventor on the basis of its unique flower color and compact growth habit.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Venhuizen, The Netherlands, since the winter of 1998, has shown that the unique features of this new Verbena are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Kieverstar’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kieverstar’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Dark green leaves; densely foliated.
4. White and dark purple bi-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Verbena differ primarily from plants of the parent in flower color and plant habit.
Plants of the new Verbena can be compared to plants of the cultivar ‘Kievertriviok’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,970. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Lompoc, Calif., plants of the new Verbena were not as upright, had smaller flowers and had fewer flowers than plants of the cultivar ‘Kievertriviok’. In addition, plants of the new Verbena and the cultivar ‘Kievertriviok’ differ slightly in flower color.
Kieft Seed Holland
Whealy C. A.
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