Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2002-09-29
2003-11-11
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP014284
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Verbena hybrida
cultivar Kieverstem.
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 ‘Kieverstem’.
The new Verbena was discovered by the Inventor in 1999 as a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of an unnamed
Verbena hybrida
seedling selection, not patented, 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 1999, 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 ‘Kieverstem’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kieverstem’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, upright and mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Dark green-colored leaves.
4. Light purple and purple bi-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Verbena differ primarily from plants of the mutation parent in flower color as plants of the unnamed selection had solid purple-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Verbena can be compared to plants of the cultivar Kievergrang, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Venhuizen, The Netherlands, plants of the new Verbena differed primarily from plants of the cultivar Kievergrang in flower coloration.
REFERENCES:
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 2003/01, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, Citation for ‘Kieverstem’.
Campell Bruce R.
Kieft Seeds Holland
Para Annette H.
Whealy C. A.
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