USPP221P - Lobelia - Google Patents

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Jam 19, 1937 c, JOHNSON Plant Pat. 221

LOBELIA Filed July 22, 1936 INVENTOR Kai/m (l/amsm BY ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 19, 1937 UNITED STATES Plant Pat. Z21

PATENT OFFICE Application July 22,

1 Claim.

My invention or discovery relates to a new variety of Lobelia and may be described as a sport of Lobelia, particularly of the trailing Lobelia known as Lobelia GTiTI/LLS gracz'lis, and as 5 such it is unique and novel because, so far as I am aware, no Lobelia of this character exists which produces a double fiat rosette flower in form.

The accompanying illustration shows in full 0 color a complete flowering plant with some buds and some fully opened flowers as well as foliage and stems.

This new Lobelia is a very profuse bloomer and shows some bloom through the winter months [5 and blossoms profusely over a period of six months beginning in April and is a perennial and does not produce seed.

This new Lobelia has been asexually propagated and found to produce true to form. The following 50 is a more detailed description of this new Lobelia:

Parentage Sport of Lobelia erinus gracilis.

Classification Small compact bush plant four to five inches in height.

Flower 30 Blossoms profusely over a period of six months 1936, Serial No. 91,880

beginning in April; is very double flat and rosette in form, three-eighths to one-half inch in diameter; color ultramarine blue; has five linear sepals acutely pointed; the flower has an extended tapered stem portion, the end of which unites with 5 the stem of the plant; its color varies somewhat from light blue to ultramarine blue as the flower ages; the buds just before opening have a light red tint.

Plant 10 The leaves are linear, lanceolate at the top, widened down towards the stem to spatulate with several distinct notches; the juvenile leaf orbiculate to ovate; the stem and branches are triangular in cross section; the plant grows from four to five inches tall.

It distinguishes from the variety Lobelia ermus gracilis from which it is a sport in that it is a small compact plant and not a trailing Lobelia in form, and its very double flat rosette flower of ultramarine blue is also a distinguishing characteristic.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A new and distinct variety of Lobelia, herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its very double, flat rosette form of flower of ultramarine blue with five linear sepals acutely pointed and the plant compact and perennial.

ESTHER o. JOHNSON. 30

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