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| x Laughing kookabura | New South Wales | Bird emblem | |||
| x Telopea speciosissima |
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New South Wales | Floral emblem |
Telopea speciosissima, commonly known as the New South Wales Waratah or simply Waratah, is a large shrub in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to New South Wales in Australia and is the floral emblem of that state. It is renowned for its striking...
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| x Eastern blue groper | New South Wales | Fish emblem | |||
| x Platypus |
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New South Wales | Animal emblem |
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead...
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| x California grizzly bear | California | State animal | |||
| x I Love You, California |
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California | State song |
I Love You, California (1913) is the official state song of California. The lyrics were written by Francis Bernard Silverwood (1863-1924), a Los Angeles clothier and the words were subsequently put to music by Abraham Franklin Frankenstein (1873...
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| x Square dance |
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California | State folk dance |
Square dance is a folk dance with four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, beginning with Couple 1 facing away from the music and going counter-clockwise until getting to Couple 4. Couples 1 and 3 are known as...
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| x Bodie |
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California | State gold rush ghost town |
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 miles (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an...
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| x Californian |
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California | State tall ship |
Californian was built in 1984 as a replica of the revenue service cutter C.W. Lawrence, which operated off the Californian coast in the 1850s. On July 23, 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Bill No. 965, making her the "official state tall...
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| x Serpentine |
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California | State rock |
The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel. In mineralogy and...
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| x Gray Whale |
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California | State marine mammal |
The Gray (or Grey) Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is a baleen whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 16 meters (52 ft), a weight of 36 tons and an age of 50–60 years. Gray Whales were once called...
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| x California dogface butterfly | California | State insect |
The California dogface butterfly (Zerene eurydice, sometimes placed in the related genus Colias) has been the state insect of the U.S. state of California since 1972. Its range is limited to that state. California was the first state to choose a...
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| x Benitoite |
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California | State gemstone |
Benitoite is a rare blue barium titanium silicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. Benitoite fluoresces under short wave ultraviolet light, appearing light blue in color.
It was first described in 1907 by George D. Louderback,...
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| x West Coast Swing |
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California | State dance |
West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance derived from Lindy Hop. It is characterised by a distinctive elastic look that results from its basic extension-compression technique of partner connection, and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the...
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| x Garibaldi |
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California | State marine fish |
The Garibaldi or Garibaldi damselfish (Hypsypops rubicundus) is a brightly colored fish of the damselfish family that is native to the north-eastern subtropical parts of the Pacific Ocean, ranging from Monterey Bay, California, to Guadalupe Island,...
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| x Desert Tortoise |
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California | State reptile |
The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The epithet agassizii is in honor of Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe...
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| Nevada | State reptile | ||||
| x Pasadena Playhouse |
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California | State theater |
The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre located in Pasadena, California.
The Playhouse's history began in 1917 when actor/director Gilmor Brown began producing a season of plays at an old burlesque house he called the Savoy. The community...
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| x Calico |
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California | State silver rush ghost town |
Calico is a ghost town located in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, today it is a county park. It is located in unincorporated San Bernardino County off Interstate 15, 3 miles from Barstow....
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| x Smilodon californicus |
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California | State fossil |
Smilodon californicus ("Smilodon of California") is a machairodontin saber-toothed cat. It is sometimes considered a separate species of the genus Smilodon but is more likely a subspecies of Smilodon fatalis (as is Smilodon floridanus).
Smilodon ...
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| x California poppy |
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California | State flower |
The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in the western United States throughout California, extending to Oregon, southern Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New...
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| x San Juaquin soil | California | State soil | |||
| x Golden Trout |
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California | State Fish |
The Golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita), is a sub-species of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The fish is also known as the California golden trout and is native to Golden Trout Creek, Volcano Creek and the South Fork Kern River....
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| x California Quail |
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California | State bird |
The California Quail, Callipepla californica, also known as the California Valley Quail or Valley Quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is the state bird of California.
These birds have a curving crest or plume,...
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| x Gold |
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California | State mineral |
Gold (pronounced /ˈɡoʊld/) is a chemical element with the symbol Au (Latin: aurum) and an atomic number of 79. It has been a highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since the beginning of recorded history. The metal...
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| x Sequoia sempervirens | California | State tree | Sequoiadendron giganteum | ||
| x Sequoiadendron giganteum |
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California | State tree | Sequoia sempervirens |
Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, Sierra redwood, or Wellingtonia) is the sole species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily...
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| North Carolina | State tree | ||||
| x Black Swan |
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Western Australia | State bird |
The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.
The black swan was first described by English naturalist John Latham in 1790. It was formerly placed into a monotypic genus...
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| x Fleur-de-lis |
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St. Louis | Motif |
The fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys; plural: fleurs-de-lis; French pronunciation: [flœʀ də lis]) is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means flower, and lis means lily) or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the...
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| x Kangaroo paw | Western Australia | Floral emblem |
Kangaroo paw is a common name for a number of species, in two genera of the family Haemodoraceae, that are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. These perennial plants are noted for their unique bird attracting flowers. The tubular flowers...
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| x Gogonasus |
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Western Australia | State fossil |
Gogonasus (meaning "snout from Gogo") was a lobe-finned fish known from 3-dimensionally preserved 380 million-year-old fossils found from the Gogo Formation in Western Australia. It lived in the late Devonian period, on what was once a 1400...
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| x Numbat |
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Western Australia | State animal |
Numbat, the species Myrmecobius fasciatus, is a marsupial found in Western Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. Once widespread across southern Australia, the range is now restricted to several small colonies and it is listed...
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| x Coat of arms of Vermont |
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Vermont | Coat of arms |
The Coat of arms of Vermont is the official armorial bearings of the U.S. state of Vermont. Most of the elements found in the coat of arms originate in the Great Seal of Vermont designed by Ira Allen. Whereas the Great Seal of Vermont is reproduced...
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| x Seal of Vermont |
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Vermont | Seal |
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont is the official seal of the U.S. state of Vermont, used to emboss and authenticate official documents. It was designed by Ira Allen (brother of Ethan Allen and one of the state's founding fathers in his own...
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| x Coat of arms of Ontario |
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Ontario | Coat of arms |
The Coat of Arms of Ontario was granted by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on 26 May 1868. The award of arms was augmented with supporters and a crest by Royal Warrant of King Edward VII on 27 February 1909.
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| x Morgan horse |
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Vermont | State animal |
The Morgan is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. Tracing back to the stallion Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, the breed excels in many disciplines, and is known for its versatility.
The...
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| x Sugar Maple |
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Vermont | State tree |
Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple) is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas.
It is a deciduous tree normally reaching heights of 25–35 m ...
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| West Virginia | State tree | ||||
| New York | State tree | ||||
| Vermont | State tree | ||||
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| x Monarch butterfly |
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Vermont | State butterfly |
The Monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it has been found in New Zealand, and in Australia since...
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| West Virginia | State butterfly | ||||
| Minnesota | State butterfly | ||||
| Texas | State butterfly | ||||
| x Red clover |
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Vermont | State flower |
Trifolium pratense (Red Clover) is a species of clover, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, but planted and naturalised in many other regions.
It is an herbaceous, short lived perennial plant, variable in size, growing to 20-80 cm...
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| x Hermit Thrush |
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Vermont | State bird |
The Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized North American thrush. It is not very closely related to the other North American migrant species of Catharus, but rather to the Mexican Russet Nightingale-thrush.
This species is 15–17 cm in...
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| x Flag of New Zealand |
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New Zealand | Flag |
The flag of New Zealand is a defaced Blue Ensign with the Union Jack in the canton, and four red stars with white borders to the right. The stars represent the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross, as seen from New Zealand.
New Zealand's first...
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| x Coat of arms of New Zealand |
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New Zealand | Coat of arms |
The Coat of Arms of New Zealand is the official symbol of New Zealand. The initial coat of arms was granted by King George V on the 26 August 1911, and the current version was granted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.
Until 1911, New Zealand used the...
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| x Tully Monster |
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Illinois | State fossil |
The Tully Monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), so far apparently unique to Illinois, USA, was a soft-bodied invertebrate that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million...
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| x Belemnoidea |
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Delaware | State fossil |
Belemnites (or belemnoids) are an extinct group of marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish. Like them, the belemnites possessed an ink sac, but, unlike the squid, they possessed...
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| x Basilosaurus |
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Alabama | State fossil |
Basilosaurus ("King Lizard") is a genus of cetacean that lived from 40 to 34 million years ago in the Late Eocene. Its fossilized remains were first discovered in the southern United States (Louisiana), and were initially believed to be some sort of...
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| x Woolly Mammoth |
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Alaska | State fossil |
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in...
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| x Petrified wood |
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Arizona | State fossil |
Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone", literally "wood turned into stone") is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such...
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| Louisiana | State fossil | ||||
| x Saber-toothed cat |
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California | State fossil |
Saber-toothed cat refers to extinct subfamilies of Machairodontinae (Felidae), Barbourofelidae (Feliformia), and Nimravidae (Feliformia) as well as two marsupial families that were found worldwide from the Eocene-Pleistocene epochs (42 mya—11,000...
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| x Stegosaurus |
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Colorado | State fossil |
Stegosaurus (pronounced /ˌstɛɡɵˈsɔrəs/) is a genus of stegosaurid armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (late Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from...
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| x Trace fossil |
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Connecticut | State fossil |
Trace fossils, also called ichnofossils (sg. pronounced /ˈɪknoʊfɒsɨl/, from Greek: ιχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), are geological records of biological activity. Trace fossils may be impressions made on the substrate by an organism: for example,...
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| Massachusetts | State fossil | ||||
| x American mastodon |
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Michigan | State fossil |
American mastodon is a common name for the species Mammut americanum, a North American mastodon that lived from about 3.7 million years ago until it became extinct about 10,000 years B.C. It is known from fossils found ranging from present-day...
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| x Coral |
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Florida | State fossil |
Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals. The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete...
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| x Shark teeth |
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Georgia | State fossil |
Shark teeth are relics of shark evolution and biology, and as they are often the only part of the shark to survive fossilisation, represent much of the Selachimorpha fossil record, extending back hundreds of millions of years. The most ancient types...
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| x Hagerman Horse |
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Idaho | State fossil |
The Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens), also called the Hagerman zebra or the American zebra, was a North American species of equid from the Pliocene period and the Pleistocene period. It was one of the oldest horses of the genus Equus. Discovered...
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| x Ground sloth |
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Indiana | State fossil |
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. Their most recent survivors lived in the Antilles, where it has been proposed they may survived until 1550 AD; however, the youngest AMS radiocarbon date...
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| x Brachiopod |
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Kentucky | State fossil |
Brachiopods (from Latin brachium, arm + New Latin -poda, foot) are a small phylum of benthic invertebrates. Also known as lamp shells (or lampshells), "brachs" or Brachiopoda, they are sessile, two-valved, marine animals with an external morphology...
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| x Longleaf Pine |
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Alabama | State tree |
The Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) is a pine native to the southeast United States, found along the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeast Virginia extending into northern and central Florida.
It reaches a height of 30–35 m (98–110 ft) and a...
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| Alabama | State tree | ||||
| x Sitka Spruce |
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Alaska | State tree |
The Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing to 50–70 m tall, exceptionally to 100 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 5 m, exceptionally to 6–7 m diameter. It is by far the largest species of spruce, and...
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| Alaska | State tree | ||||
| x Parkinsonia florida |
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Arizona | State tree |
Parkinsonia florida (Blue Palo Verde; syn. Cercidium floridum) is a species of palo verde native to the southwestern United States (southeastern California, southern Arizona) and northwestern Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California). Its name means...
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| Arizona | State tree | ||||
| x Loblolly Pine |
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Arkansas | State tree |
Loblolly Pine (also known as North Carolina pine, Bull Pine, Old-field Pine, or Pinus taeda ) is one of several pines native to the American South, being particularly dominant in the eastern half of North Carolina (where there are huge expanses...
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| Arkansas | State tree | ||||
| x Blue Spruce |
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Colorado | State tree |
Picea pungens (Colorado Blue Spruce or Blue Spruce) is a species of spruce native to western North America, from southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming, south through Utah and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico. It grows at high altitudes from 1,750...
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| Utah | State tree | ||||
| Colorado | State tree | ||||
| Utah | State tree | ||||
