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All 50 States
State Symbols
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Alabama |
“Alabama”
(1931) |
yellowhammer (1927) |
Southern
longleaf pine (1949, 1997) |
camellia (1959) |
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Salt water
fish: fighting tarpon (1955);
Fresh water fish: largemouth bass
(1975); Horse: racking horse (1975);
Mineral: hematite (1967);
Rock: marble (1969); Game
bird: wild turkey (1980); Dance:
square dance (1981); Nut: pecan
(1982); Fossil: species
Basilosaurus Cetoides (1984);
Official mascot and butterfly: eastern
tiger swallowtail (1989); Insect:
monarch butterfly (1989); Reptile:
Alabama red-bellied turtle (1990);
Gemstone: star blue quartz (1990);
Shell: scaphella junonia johnstoneae
(1990) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Alaska |
“Alaska's
Flag” (1955) |
willow
ptarmigan (1955) |
sitka
spruce (1962) |
forget-me-not (1949) |
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Fish:
king salmon (1962); Gem: jade
(1968); Marine mammal: bowhead whale
(1983); Fossil: woolly mammoth
(1986); Mineral: gold (1968);
Sport: dog mushing (1972) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Arizona |
“Arizona”
(1919) |
cactus
wren (1931) |
palo verde
(1954) |
flower of
saguaro cactus (1931) |
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Colors:
blue and old gold (1915); Neckwear:
bola tie (1971); Fossil: petrified
wood (1988); Gemstone: turquoise
(1974); Mammal: ringtail (1986);
Reptile: Arizona ridgenose rattlesnake
(1986); Fish: Arizona trout (1986);
Amphibian: Arizona tree frog (1986);
Butterfly: two-tailed swallowtail
(2001) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Arkansas |
“Arkansas”
(1963) |
mockingbird (1929) |
pine
(1939) |
apple
blossom (1901) |
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Insect:
honeybee (1973) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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California |
“I Love
You, California” (1951) |
California
valley quail (1931) |
California
redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens &
Sequoiadendron giganteum) (1937, 1953) |
golden
poppy (1903) |
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Animal:
California grizzly bear (1953); Fish:
California golden trout (1947); Colors:
blue and gold (1951) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Colorado |
“Where the
Columbines Grow” (1915) |
lark
bunting (1931) |
Colorado
blue spruce (1939) |
Rocky
Mountain columbine (1899) |
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Animal:
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (1961);
Gemstone: aquamarine (1971); Colors:
blue and white (1911); Fossil:
stegosaurus (1991) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Delaware |
“Our
Delaware” |
blue hen
chicken (1939) |
American
holly (1939) |
peach
blossom (1895) |
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Colors:
colonial blue and buff; Insect:
ladybug (1974); Butterfly: tiger
swallowtail (1999); Fish: weakfish,
cynoscion regalis (1981);
Beverage: milk; Fossil: belemnite |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Florida |
“Suwannee
River” (1935) |
mockingbird (1927) |
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orange
blossom (1909) |
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Georgia |
“Georgia
on My Mind” (1922) |
brown
thrasher (1935) |
live oak
(1937) |
Cherokee
rose (1916) |
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Hawaii |
“Hawaii
Ponoi” (1967) |
nene
(Hawaiian goose) (1957) |
kukui
(candlenut) (1959) |
hibiscus
(yellow) (1988) |
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Idaho |
“Here We
Have Idaho” |
mountain
bluebird (1931) |
white pine
(1935) |
syringa
(1931) |
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Horse:
Appaloosa (1975); Gem: star garnet
(1967); Folk dance: square dance;
Fish: cutthroat trout (1990); Fossil:
Hagerman horse fossil (1988) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Illinois |
“Illinois”
(1925) |
cardinal (1929) |
white
oak (1973) |
violet
(1908) |
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Animal:
white-tailed deer (1982); Fish:
bluegill (1987); Insect: monarch
butterfly (1975); Mineral:
fluorite (1965) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Indiana |
“On the
Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” (1913) |
cardinal
(1933) |
tulip tree
(1931) |
peony
(1957) |
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River:
Wabash; Stone: limestone |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Iowa |
“Song of
Iowa” |
eastern
goldfinch (1933) |
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wild rose
(1897) |
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Colors:
red, white, and blue (in state flag) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Kansas |
“Home on
the Range” (1947) |
western
meadowlark (1937) |
cottonwood
(1937) |
sunflower (1903) |
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Animal:
buffalo (1955) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Kentucky |
“My Old
Kentucky Home” |
Kentucky
cardinal |
tulip
poplar (1994) |
goldenrod |
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Louisiana |
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eastern
brown pelican (1958) |
bald
cypress (1963) |
magnolia
(1900) |
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Songs:
“Give Me Louisiana” and “You Are My
Sunshine” |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Maine |
“State of
Maine Song” (1937) |
chickadee
(1927) |
white pine
tree (1945) |
white pine
cone and tassel (1895) |
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Fish:
landlocked salmon (1969); Mineral:
tourmaline (1971); Animal: moose
(1979); Cat: Maine coon cat (1985);
Fossil: pertica quadrifaria
(1985); Insect: honeybee (1975) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Maryland |
“Maryland!
My Maryland!” (1939) |
Baltimore
oriole (1947) |
white oak
(1941) |
black-eyed
susan (1918) |
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Boat:
skipjack (1985); Crustacean: Maryland
blue crab (1989); Dinosaur: Astrodon
johnstoni (1998); Dog: Chesapeake Bay
retriever (1964); Beverage: milk
(1998); Fish: rockfish (1965);
Folk dance: square dance (1994);
Fossil shell: ecphora gardnerae
gardnerae (Wilson) (1994); Insect:
Baltimore checkerspot butterfly (1973);
Reptile: Diamondback terrapin (1994);
Sport: jousting (1962); Team
sport: lacrosse (2004) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Massachusetts |
“All Hail
to Massachusetts” (1966) |
chickadee
(1941) |
American
elm (1941) |
mayflower
(1918) |
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Beverage:
cranberry juice (1970); Insect:
ladybug (1974); Cookie: chocolate
chip (1997); Muffin: corn muffin
(1986); Dessert: Boston cream pie
(1996) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Michigan |
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robin
(1931) |
white pine
(1955) |
apple
blossom (1897) |
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Mammal:
white-tailed deer (1997); Fishes:
trout (1965), brook trout (1988); Gem:
isle royal greenstone (chlorastrolite)
(1972); Stone: petoskey stone (1965);
Soil: kalkaska soil series (1990);
Reptile: painted turtle (1995); Flag:
“Blue charged with the arms of the
state” (1911); Wildflower: Dwarf Lake
iris (1998) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Minnesota |
“Hail
Minnesota” (1945) |
common
loon (also called great northern diver)
(1961) |
red (or
Norway) pine (1953) |
lady
slipper (1902) |
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Fish:
walleye (1965); Mushroom: morel
(1984) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Mississippi |
“Go,
Mississippi” (1962) |
mockingbird (1944) |
magnolia
(1938) |
flower or
bloom of the magnolia or evergreen magnolia
(1952) |
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Wildflower:
coreopsis (1991); Stone:
petrified wood (1976); Fish:
largemouth or black bass (1974); Insect:
honeybee (1980); Shell: oyster
shell (1974); Water mammal:
bottlenosed dolphin or porpoise (1974);
Fossil: prehistoric whale (1981);
Land mammal: white-tailed deer (1974),
red fox (1997); Waterfowl: wood duck
(1974); Beverage: milk (1984);
Butterfly: spicebush swallowtail (1991);
Dance: square dance (1995) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Missouri |
“Missouri
Waltz” (1949) |
bluebird
(1927) |
flowering
dogwood (1955) |
hawthorn
(1923) |
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Aquatic
animal: paddlefish (1997); Fish:
channel catfish (1997); Fossil:
crinoid (1989); Musical instrument:
fiddle (1987); Rock: mozarkite
(1967); Mineral: galena (1967);
Insect: honeybee (1985); Tree nut:
eastern black walnut (1990); Animal:
mule (1995); Dance: square dance
(1995); Missouri day: third Wednesday
in October (1969) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Montana |
“Montana”
(1945) |
Western
meadowlark (1981) |
ponderosa
pine (1949) |
bitterroot
(1895) |
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Stones:
sapphire and agate (1969) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Nebraska |
“Beautiful
Nebraska” (1967) |
Western
meadowlark (1929) |
cottonwood
(1972) |
goldenrod
(1895) |
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Fish:
channel catfish (1997); American folk
dance: square dance (1997); Ballad:
“A Place Like Nebraska” (1997);
Insect: honeybee (1975); Gemstone:
blue agate (1967); Rock: prairie
agate (1967); Fossil: mammoth (1967);
Soil: typic argiustolls, holdreges
series (1979); Mammal: whitetail deer
(1981); Grass: little bluestem
(1969); Beverage: milk (1998) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Nevada |
“Home
Means Nevada” (1933) |
mountain
bluebird (1967) |
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sagebrush
(1959) |
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Trees:
single-leaf pinon (1953) and bristlecone
pine (1987); Animal: desert bighorn
sheep (1973); Colors: silver and blue
(1983); Rock: sandstone (1987);
Precious gemstone: virgin valley black
fire opal (1987); Semiprecious gemstone:
Nevada turquoise (1987); Grass:
Indian ricegrass (1977); Metal:
silver (1977); Fossil: ichthyosaur
(1977); Fish: lahontan cutthroat
trout (1981); Reptile: desert
tortoise (1989); State artifact: tule
duck decoy (1995) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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New Hampshire |
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purple
finch (1957) |
white
birch (1947) |
purple
lilac (1919) |
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Animal:
white-tailed deer (1983); Insect:
ladybug (1977); Saltwater fish:
striped bass (1994); Freshwater fish:
brook trout (1995); Amphibian:
spotted newt (1985); Butterfly:
karner blue (1992); Songs: “Old New
Hampshire” (1949) and “New Hampshire, My New
Hampshire” (1963) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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New Jersey |
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eastern
goldfinch (1935) |
red oak
(1950) |
purple
violet (1913) |
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Insect:
honeybee (1974); Animal: horse
(1977); Colors: buff and blue (1965);
Folk dance: square dance;
Dinosaur: hadrosaurus foulkii; Fish:
brook trout; Shell: knobbed
whelk; Fruit: blueberry (2004) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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New Mexico |
“O Fair
New Mexico” (1917) |
roadrunner
(1949) |
pinon
(1949) |
yucca
(1927) |
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Animal:
black bear (1963); Fish: cutthroat
trout (1955); Vegetables: chili and
frijol (1965); Gem: turquoise (1967);
Spanish-language song: “Asi Es Nuevo
Méjico” (1971); Poem: “A Nuevo
México” (1991); Grass: blue gramma
(1973); Fossil: coelophysis (1981);
Cookie: bizcochito (1989); Insect:
tarantula hawk wasp (1989); Ballad:
“Land of Enchantment” (1989);
Bilingual song: “New Mexico—Mi Lindo
Nuevo Mexico”, (1995); Question: “Red
or Green?” (1999) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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New York |
“I Love
New York” (1980) |
bluebird
(1970) |
sugar
maple (1956) |
rose
(1955) |
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Animal:
beaver (1975); Fish: brook trout
(1975); Gem: garnet (1969);
Insect: ladybug (1989) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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North Carolina |
“The Old
North State” (1927) |
cardinal
(1943) |
pine
(1963) |
dogwood
(1941) |
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Mammal:
gray squirrel (1969); Insect:
honeybee (1973); Reptile: eastern box
turtle (1979); Gemstone: emerald
(1973); Shell: scotch bonnet (1965);
Historic boat: shad boat (1987);
Beverage: milk (1987); Rock:
granite (1979); Dog: plott hound
(1989); Colors: red and blue (1945);
Fruit: scuppernong grape (2001) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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North Dakota |
“North
Dakota Hymn” (1947) |
western
meadowlark (1947) |
American
elm (1947) |
wild
prairie rose (1907) |
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Fish:
northern pike (1969); Grass: western
wheatgrass (1977); Fossil: teredo
petrified wood (1967); Beverage: milk
(1983); State march: Spirit of the
Land (1975); Equine: Nokota horse
(1993); Dance: square dance (1995) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Ohio |
“Beautiful
Ohio” (1969) |
cardinal
(1933) |
buckeye
(1953) |
scarlet
carnation (1904) |
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Insect:
ladybug (1975); Gemstone: flint
(1965); Beverage: tomato juice
(1965); Fossil: trilobite (1985);
Animal: white-tailed deer (1988);
Wildflower: large white trillium (1987) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Oklahoma |
“Oklahoma”
(1953) |
scissor-tailed flycatcher (1951) |
redbud
(1937) |
mistletoe
(1893) |
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Animal:
bison (1972); Reptile: mountain
boomer lizard (1969); Stone: rose
rock (barite rose) (1968); Colors:
green and white (1915); Beverage:
milk; Butterfly: black swallowtail;
Fish: white or sand bass; Folk
dance: square dance; Furbearer:
raccoon; Game animal: white-tailed
deer; Grass: Indiangrass; Insect:
honeybee; Musical instrument:
fiddle; Poem: “Howdy Folks,” David
Randolph Milsten; Waltz: “Oklahoma
Wind”; Wildflower: Indian blanket |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Oregon |
“Oregon,
My Oregon” (1927) |
western
meadowlark (1927) |
douglas
fir (1939) |
Oregon
grape (1899) |
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Animal:
beaver (1969); Fish: chinook salmon
(1961); Rock: thunderegg (1965);
Colors: navy blue and gold (1959);
Insect: swallowtail butterfly (1979);
Dance: square dance (1977); Nut:
hazelnut (1989); Gemstone: sunstone
(1987); Seashell: Oregon hairy triton
(1991); Beverage: milk (1997);
Mushroom: Pacific golden chanterelle
(1999) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Pennsylvania |
“Pennsylvania” (1990) |
ruffed
grouse (1931) |
hemlock
(1931) |
mountain
laurel (1933) |
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Dog:
Great Dane (1965); Colors: blue and
gold (1907) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Rhode Island |
“Rhode
Island, It's for Me” (1996) |
Rhode
Island red hen (official) (1954) |
red maple
(official) (1964) |
violet
(unofficial) (1968) |
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Shell:
quahog (official); Mineral: bowenite
(1966); Stone: cumberlandite (1966);
Colors: blue, white, and gold (in
state flag) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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South Carolina |
“Carolina”
(1911) |
Carolina
wren (1948) |
palmetto
tree (1939) |
Carolina
yellow jessamine (1924) |
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| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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South Dakota |
“Hail!
South Dakota” (1943) |
ring-necked pheasant (1943) |
black
hills spruce (1947) |
American
pasqueflower (1903) |
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Grass:
Western wheat grass (1970); Soil:
houdek (1990); Insect: honeybee
(1978); Animal: coyote (1949);
Mineral stone: rose quartz (1966);
Gemstone: fairburn agate (1966);
Colors: blue and gold (in state flag);
Fish: walleye (1982); Musical
instrument: fiddle (1989); Dessert:
kuchen (2000) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Tennessee |
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mockingbird (1933) |
tulip
poplar (1947) |
iris
(1933) |
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Horse:
Tennessee walking horse; Animal:
raccoon (1971); Wild flower: passion
flower (1973); Songs: “My Homeland,
Tennessee” (1925); “When It's Iris Time in
Tennessee” (1935); “My Tennessee” (1955);
“Tennessee Waltz” (1965); “Rocky Top”
(1982); “Tennessee” (1992); “The Pride of
Tennessee” (1996) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Texas |
“Texas,
Our Texas” (1929) |
mockingbird (1927) |
pecan
(1919) |
bluebonnet
(1901) |
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Fish:
guadalupe bass (1989); Seashell:
lightning whelk (1987); Dish: chili
(1977); Folk dance: square dance
(1991); Fruit: Texas red grapefruit
(1993); Gem: Texas blue topaz (1969);
Gemstone cut: Lone Star cut (1977);
Grass: sideoats grass (1971);
Reptile: horned lizard (1993); Stone:
petrified palmwood (1969); Plant:
prickly pear cactus; Insect: monarch
butterfly; Pepper: jalapeño pepper;
Mammal: longhorn; Small mammal:
armadillo; Flying mammal: Mexican
free-tailed bat |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Utah |
“Utah, We
Love Thee” (1953) |
California
gull (1955) |
blue
spruce (1933) |
sego lily
(1911) |
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Emblem:
beehive (1959); Gem: topaz;
Animal: Rocky Mountain elk (1971);
Insect: honeybee (1983); Grass:
Indian rice grass (1990); Fossil:
allosaurus (1988); Cooking pot: dutch
oven (1997); Fish: Bonneville
cutthroat trout (1997); Fruit: cherry
(1997); Mineral: copper; Rock:
coal (1991) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
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Vermont |
“These
Green Mountains” (2000) |
hermit
thrush (1941) |
sugar
maple (1949) |
red clover
(1894) |
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Animal:
Morgan horse (1961); Insect: honeybee
(1978) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
|
Virginia |
|
cardinal
(1950) |
dogwood
(1956) |
American
dogwood (1918) |
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Dog:
American foxhound (1966); Shell:
oyster shell (1974) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
|
Washington |
“Washington, My Home” (1959) |
willow
goldfinch (1951) |
western
hemlock (1947) |
coast
rhododendron (1892) |
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Fish:
steelhead trout (1969); Gem:
petrified wood (1975); Colors: green
and gold (1925); Folk song: “Roll On
Columbia, Roll On” (1987); Dance:
square dance (1979); Grass: bluebunch
wheatgrass (1989); Insect: blue
darner dragonfly (1997); Fossil:
Columbian mammoth (1998); Fruit:
apple (1989) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
|
West Virginia |
|
cardinal
(1949) |
sugar
maple (1949) |
rhododendron (1903) |
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Animal:
black bear (1973); Colors: blue and
gold (official) (1863); Songs: “West
Virginia, My Home Sweet Home,” “The West
Virginia Hills,” and “This Is My West
Virginia” (adopted by Legislature in 1947,
1961, and 1963 as official state songs) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
|
Wisconsin |
“On
Wisconsin” |
robin
(1949) |
sugar
maple (1949) |
wood
violet (1949) |
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Grain:
corn (1990); Animal: badger; Wild
life animal: white-tailed deer (1957);
Domestic animal: dairy cow (1971);
Insect: honeybee (1977); Fish:
musky (muskellunge) (1955); Mineral:
galena (1971); Rock: red granite
(1971); Symbol of peace: mourning
dove (1971); Soil: antigo silt loam
(1983); Fossil: trilobite (1985);
Dog: American Water Spaniel (1986);
Beverage: milk (1988); Dance:
polka (1994); Waltz: “The Wisconsin
Waltz” (2001); Ballad: “Oh Wisconsin,
Land of My Dreams” (2001) |
| State |
Song |
Bird |
Tree |
Flower |
|
Wyoming |
“Wyoming”
(1955) |
western
meadowlark (1927) |
cottonwood
(1947) |
Indian
paintbrush (1917) |
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Dinosaur:
Triceratops (1994); Fish:
cutthroat trout (1987); Fossil:
Knightia (1987); Gemstone: jade
(1967); Insignia: bucking horse
(unofficial); Mammal: bison (1985);
Reptile: horned toad (1993); Soil:
Forkwood series (unofficial) |
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