Frasier duck made duckfoot popular but they are not the creators of the plant It's actually an Italian landrace of hemp imported to the United States in the early 1900s for diversity and hemp seeds before it went illegal
The simple leaf mutation, also described as palmately lobed, webbed leaf, duckfoot, or pinnatifidofilla has a long history. Although it is possible that the mutation originated only once, it is likely that it has arisen several times and has been selected and maintained because of the conspicuous phenotype.
http://cannabismutations.blogspot.com/2012/08/leaf-mutation-simple-leaves.html?m=1
