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Jan. 1, 1974 M. OWNBEY Plant Pat. 3,419 DICENTRA PLANT Filed Aug Jan. 1, 1974 M. OWNBEY Plant Pat. 3,419 DICENTRA PLANT Filed Aug. 23, 1971 Plant Pat. 3,419 United States Patent Office Patented Jan. 1, 1974 1. 2 PREFERRED CONDITIONS OF GROWTH DICENiRAPLANT3.419 The plant thrives best, both as to growth and flower Marion Ownbey, Pullman, Wash., assignor to The ing, in the full sun, but it tolerates medium to dense Wayside Gardens Company, Mentor, Ohio shade. The particular exposure is not critical, but a Well Filed Aug. 23, 1971, Ser. No. 174,066 5 drained, fertile, sand or sandy loam soil is preferred for Int, Cl, A01 h 5/00 best growth and bloom. U.S. C. Plt-68 1. Claim This application is directed to a new and distinct THE PARTS OF THE EXPOSED PLANT variety of Dicentra plant. The flower stalks are generally upright and curving, The present new variety was first developed by me in O and drooping at their ends. They are slightly branched. Pullman, Wash., and there asexually reproduced by me Generally they are adequate to support the foliage and by root division. blooms well. The color of both the old and new foliage is blue The new variety was developed by an intentional cross green, comparable to Chrysocolla green, RHS 56/3. It is pollination made by the transfer of pollen from the 5 . staminate parent Dicentra peregrina, a wild species from generally uniform both on the old and new growth. Japan, to the seed or pistillate parent Dicentra "Para The length of the flower stalks is from about fifteen mount,” U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,594. to eighteen inches on the average. The stalks are smooth Dicentra Paramount is a selection from an open pol and naked in texture, and are grouped and divergent in linated presumed F population derived from a Dicentra arrangement. The branching is sparse and alternate, with formosa ssp. oreganax Dicentra eximia cross. 20 smooth and naked branches colored blue-green. The Seeds from the controlled cross pollination were planted branches are relatively short and flexible, but adequate and the new variety was selected from the resulting seed to support the bloom and foliage well. lings. THE FOLLAGE The new variety is illustrated in the drawing which shows in the upper view the present variety of Dicentra 25 The foliage generally is compact with the leaves al plant in bloom, and in the lower view an enlargement ternate and basal. The leaves are abundant in quantity. of one of the typical flower stalks, with flowers and leaves, Both the old and new leaves are a blue-green, RHS 56/3, of the plant in the upper view. on the top and bottom. The color is generally uniform. The color references herein are to the Royal Horti The leaf blades are of average medium size, reaching a cultural Society Colour (1941). 30 maximum length of about six inches and a minimum The plant is generally similar to the Dicentra "Para length of three inches. The maximum width is six inches mount,' except for the shape, color, abundance, sterility and minimum width of three inches. The leaf blades are and lasting quality of the flowers. Unlike the Dicentra generally twice ternate, then pinnately divided, the gen "Paramount,” its flowers or bangles are more truly heart eral outline being deltoid, as usual in this group of shaped, and have strongly recurved outer petals which 35 Dicentras. The margins of the tertiary divisions are are generally bright Rose Red, RHS 724/3, but may range again deeply divided, the bases of the tertiary divisions from RHS 025 to 025/1, in color with narrow white being cuneate. The apices of the ultimate divisions are margins on the petals. In the illustration the colors are mucronate. Both the upper and lower faces are glabrous less blued than in the actual plant. Its panicles are looser 40 and glaucous, more glaucous than is usual. Their per and bear a dozen or more sterile flowers which individual sistency on the plant is excellent. ly last several weeks. It has a truly ever-blooming habit, The leaf steams are smooth and naked, blue-green a single well grown plant producing as many as fifty comparable to the leaf color, and about eight inches in to one hundred flower clusters from spring to fall in a length. They are strong. single season. For the best quality of blooms, the variety prefers cool 45 temperature areas in a Sunny exposure, but tolerates shade. ROOTS It blooms well in northern and southern exposures, but The root of the plant is usual, being a fibrous mass, best in eastern and Western exposures. It blooms best in short rhizomatous, the rhizomes being vertically dis moderately moist, cool, seasons in a well drained moist posed. The root is of medium size, shallowness, and rich sandy loam soil, either acid or neutral, but also lateral spread. 50 blooms well in rocky soil. The roots also have disease, drought, winter resistance, The quantity of blooms generally is increased by in protected and unprotected, usual for Dicentra plants. They creased sunlight and fertility, and adequate, but not ex have withstood temperatures below zero F. without snow cessive, water. The color is intensified by full sunlight cover and as low as minus 30 F. with snow cover. and cooler temperatures. While more flowers are pro The roots thrive in both acid and neutral soils, well 55 duced in the full sunlight, they fade more quickly. At drained, but sand or sandy loam are preferred. higher temperatures and with increasing shade the color fades. The plant tends to become dormant in hot, dry EXPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE PLANT weather. Ordinarily the conditions of sun, shade, mois The plant is a hardy, herbaceous, perennial. It grows ture have little effect on the size of the bloom. generally upright and is dense and compact and clumped, 60 with a rounded peak. A two year old plant averages about BLOOMING PEREOD ten inches high, and eighteen inches across, not includ The plant blooms generally from late April through ing over-topping flower stalks or peduncles, which bring October, with a few flowers at first and reaching a peak the total height in flowering plant to from fifteen to in quantity in June, or sometimes in September. General eighteen inches. 65 ly it blooms continuously throughout the blooming period, but sometimes blooms recurrently. The general shape is that of a rounded mound. The The buds generally are medium large, and are truly plant is of vigorous growth and resistant to low tem heart shaped with smooth glossy aspect. They are sup peratures both when protected and unprotected. It appears ported in the usual drooping or pendant position on to be relatively free from diseases and has good resist 70 lateral branches. ance to drougth and wet seasons. It is exceptionally re The color when the sepals first divide is unusual, being sistant to the usual insect pests. a Rose Red, comparable to RHS 724, and this color 3,419 3 4. is retained when the sepals first divide, as the petals begin plants. They are free from petaloids in the center, until to unfurl, and when half blown. the fall of the entire flower. The sepals generally are inconspicuous and small, as An unusual feature of the flowers is that they are is usual for Dicentra plants. The calyx is of the usual more truly heart-shaped, as shown clearly in the lower shape and small and inconspicuous. view in the drawing. They are of exquisite quality and The peduncles average from fifteen to eighteen inches, have a faint fragrance. - overtopping the leaves and have the usual surface texture. Generally, the stamens are usual for Dicentra plants, Their color is blue-green, comparable to the leaf color. except that they are pollen abortive. They are of the They are very strong. The pedicels average from one half usual yellow color with white filaments and yellow pollen. to one inch and have the usual surface texture. They O The styles and stigma are usual in size and shape and are blue-green or somewhat reddish in color with the reddish in color. small red bracts at the base. They are of average strength. The flower has a single ovary. The fruit is abortive. If developed at all, it is usually empty, or contains not THE BLOOM more than a single seed. This is quite unusual for these The bloom ranges from one half inch to five eighths plants. of an inch in average diameter. Several hundred are borne 15 The variety apparently can be grown satisfactorily over on a plant. The blooms are borne in panicles, and on the much of the northern United States and places of similar growing plant last from about two to four weeks, de climate. pending upon the weather. When cut, they last from one The variety combines the most desirable characteristics to two weeks, but sometimes longer. 20 of three wild species of Dicentra, one from eastern North The petalage is usual, there being four petals, two America, one from western North America, and one of which are large and two of which are small. They from Asia. Its triploid chromosome complement includes are arranged in two whorls. Their color overall is Rose one set of chromosomes from each Dicentra formosa ssp. Red, comparable to RHS 724/3 when the plant is grow oregana (Eastwood) Munz, Dicentra eximia (KER) ing under preferred conditions in the sun. Under other Torrey, and Dicentra peregrina (Rudolph) Makino. This less desirable conditions, the color approaches Rose tri-specific parentage gives it great adaptability and hy Madder, RHS 23/1.
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