US Plant Patent PP16279
Bold Yogretchen
Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bold Yogretchen’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 2024. This patent earned 122 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16279
- Filed
- September 8, 2004
- Granted
- February 21, 2006
- Expires
- January 8, 2025
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- SMITH MARK A
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bold Yogretchen’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; decorative-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets; dark orange-colored ray florets; natural season flowering in mid-September in the Northern Hemisphere; and good garden performance.
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1. A new and disctinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bold Yogretchen’, as illustrated and described.
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