A new and distinct cultivar ofplant named ‘LeeAnn's WLB’ is disclosed, characterized by a strong, upright growth habit, combined with free branching and early flowering. Inflorescences are held above the foliage canopy. Flowering stems have an above average strength with a firm blossom attachment. Flower color is warm salmon with a distinct red picotee on the ray florets. Inflorescences have strong postproduction quality. The new variety is atypically produced for cut flower purposes, or garden or landscape.
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Claim 1: 1. A new and distinct cultivar ofplant named ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ as herein illustrated and described.
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Variety denomination: ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’.
The newcultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor, in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. The objective of the breeding program was to produce newvarieties that excel in outdoor conditions, produce cut flowers and are suitable for container gardens.
Seed from variousvarieties was bulk collected by the inventor during 2014 and planted during 2015. ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ was intentionally selected from the seedlings that resulted based on the criteria of stem length and strength, upright growth habit, inflorescence attachment, ray floret count, and inflorescence color.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar was first performed by tubers by the inventor in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in the Spring of 2016 and has shown that the unique features of this cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
The cultivar ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, day length, and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ as a new and distinctcultivar:
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Plants of the new cultivar ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ are comparable to the variety‘Rawhide’, unpatented. The twovarieties are similar in most horticultural characteristics; however, the new variety ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ differs in the following:
In the following description, color references are made to the Royal Horticultural Society RHS Colour Chart 2015 except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations and measurements describe ‘LeeAnn's WL186B’ plants grown outdoors in Greencastle, PA. Measurements and numerical values represent averages for average plants grown in production cut flower rows. The average growing season for outdoor cut flower production runs from May through mid-October or 24 weeks. The terminal bud is pinched off the dahlia around 4-6 weeks of age. The photographs and descriptions were taken when plants were about 140 days or about 20 weeks old.
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October 14, 2025
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