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| x Telopea speciosissima |
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Telopea speciosissima, commonly known as the New South Wales waratah or simply waratah, is a large shrub in the plant family Proteaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales in Australia and is the floral emblem of that state. No subspecies are...
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New South Wales | Floral emblem | |
| x Eastern blue groper | New South Wales | Fish emblem | |||
| x Platypus |
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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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New South Wales | Animal emblem | |
| x California grizzly bear | California | State animal | |||
| x I Love You, California |
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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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California | State song | |
| x Square dance |
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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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California | State folk dance | |
| x Bodie |
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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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California | State gold rush ghost town | |
| x Californian |
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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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California | State tall ship | |
| x Serpentine |
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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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California | State rock | |
| x Gray Whale |
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The gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus, is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 16 m (52 ft), a weight of 36 tonnes (35 long tons; 40 short tons), and lives 50–70 years. The common...
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California | State marine mammal | |
| x California dogface butterfly |
Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, is sometimes placed in the related genus as Colias eurydice. It is endemic to California, and its state insect insignia.
The California dogface butterfly has been the state insect of the U.S. state...
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California | State insect | ||
| x Benitoite |
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Benitoite (ben-EE-toe-ite) is a rare blue barium titanium silicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. Benitoite fluoresces under short wave ultraviolet light, appearing bright blue to bluish white in color. The more rarely seen...
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California | State gemstone | |
| x West Coast Swing |
West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop. It is characterized 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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California | State dance | ||
| x Garibaldi |
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The Garibaldi or Garibaldi damselfish (Hypsypops rubicundus) is a brightly colored orange 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...
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California | State marine fish | |
| x Desert Tortoise |
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The desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus morafkai) are species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico and the Sinaloan thornscrub of northwestern Mexico....
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California | State reptile | |
| Nevada | State reptile | ||||
| x Pasadena Playhouse |
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The Pasadena Playhouse is an historic performing arts venue located 39 S El Molino Avenue in Pasadena, California. The 686-seat auditorium produces a variety of cultural and artistic events, professional shows, and community engagements each year....
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California | State theater | |
| x Calico |
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Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been...
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California | State silver rush ghost town | |
| x Smilodon californicus |
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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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California | State fossil | |
| x California poppy |
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Eschscholzia californica, commonly called the California poppy or golden poppy, is a perennial and annual plant, native to the United States, and the official state flower of California.
California poppy is a perennial plant that grows 5 to 60 in ...
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California | State flower | |
| x San Juaquin soil | California | State soil | |||
| x Golden Trout |
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The golden trout (Oncorhynchus aguabonita) is a species of trout considered by many to be a sub-species of the rainbow trout It closely resembles the juvenile Rainbow trout. The fish is also known as the California golden trout and is native to...
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California | State Fish | |
| x California Quail |
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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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California | State bird | |
| x Gold |
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Gold ( /ˈɡoʊld/) is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum "gold") and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered...
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California | State mineral | |
| x Sequoiadendron giganteum |
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Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, or Wellingtonia) is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the...
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North Carolina | State tree | |
| California | State tree | ||||
| x Black Swan |
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The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are...
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Western Australia | State bird | |
| x Fleur-de-lis |
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The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-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 same time, religious, political,...
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St. Louis | Motif | |
| x Kangaroo paw |
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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Western Australia | Floral emblem | ||
| x Gogonasus |
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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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Western Australia | State fossil | |
| x Numbat |
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The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the banded anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial found in Western Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. Once widespread across southern Australia, the range is now restricted...
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Western Australia | State animal | |
| x Coat of arms of Vermont |
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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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Vermont | Coat of arms | |
| x Seal of Vermont |
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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 founders.
The seal depicts a 14...
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Vermont | Seal | |
| x Coat of arms of Ontario |
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The coat of arms of Ontario was granted by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on 26 May 1868. This arms of Canada was shared with the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador and also used in the Canadian Red Ensign. The...
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Ontario | Coat of arms | |
| x Morgan horse |
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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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Vermont | State animal | |
| x Sugar Maple |
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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. Sugar maple is best known for its bright fall foliage and for...
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New York | State tree | |
| Vermont | State tree | ||||
| West Virginia | State tree | ||||
| Wisconsin | State tree | ||||
| x Monarch butterfly |
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The Monarch butterfly (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...
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Vermont | State butterfly | |
| West Virginia | State butterfly | ||||
| Minnesota | State butterfly | ||||
| Texas | State butterfly | ||||
| x Red clover |
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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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Vermont | State flower | |
| x Hermit Thrush |
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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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Vermont | State bird | |
| x Flag of New Zealand |
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The flag of New Zealand is a defaced Blue Ensign with the Union Flag in the canton, and four red stars with white borders to the right. The stars represent the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross.
New Zealand's first flag, the flag of the...
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Flag | ||
| x Coat of arms of New Zealand |
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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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Coat of arms | ||
| x Tully Monster |
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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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Illinois | State fossil | |
| x Belemnoidea |
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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 belemnoids possessed an ink sac, but, unlike the squid, they possessed ten arms of...
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Delaware | State fossil | |
| x Basilosaurus |
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Basilosaurus ("King Lizard") is a genus of cetacean that lived between 40 to 34 million years ago in the Late Eocene. Its fossilized remains were first discovered in the southern United States (Louisiana). The American fossils were initially...
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Alabama | State fossil | |
| x Woolly Mammoth |
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Opisthokonta
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), also called the tundra mammoth, was a species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved...
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Alaska | State fossil | |
| x Petrified wood |
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Petrified wood (from the Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone") is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having...
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Arizona | State fossil | |
| Louisiana | State fossil | ||||
| x Saber-toothed cat |
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Saber-toothed cat or sabre-toothed cat (see spelling differences) refers to the extinct subfamilies of Machairodontinae (Felidae), Barbourofelidae (Feliformia), and Nimravidae (Feliformia) as well as two families related to marsupials that were...
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California | State fossil | |
| x Stegosaurus |
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Filozoa
Stegosaurus ( /ˌstɛɡɵˈsɔrəs/, meaning "roof lizard" or "covered lizard" in reference to its bony plates) is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian), some 155 to...
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Colorado | State fossil | |
| x Trace fossil |
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Trace fossils, also called ichnofossils (sg. /ˈɪknoʊfɒsɨl/; 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, burrows, borings ...
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Connecticut | State fossil | |
| Massachusetts | State fossil | ||||
| x American mastodon |
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Opisthokonta
The American mastodon (Mammut americanum) is an extinct North American proboscidean that lived from about 3.7 million years ago until about 10,000 BC. It was the last surviving member of the mastodon family. Fossil finds range from...
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Michigan | State fossil | |
| x Coral |
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Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to...
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Florida | State fossil | |
| x Shark teeth |
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A shark tooth is one of the numerous teeth of a shark. Sharks continually shed their teeth, and some Carcharhiniformes shed approximately 35,000 teeth in a lifetime. In some geological formations, shark's teeth are a common fossil. These fossils can...
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Georgia | State fossil | |
| x Hagerman Horse |
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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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Idaho | State fossil | |
| x Ground sloth |
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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 have survived until 1550 CE; however, the youngest AMS radiocarbon...
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Indiana | State fossil | |
| x Brachiopod |
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Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are marine animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, while the front can be...
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Kentucky | State fossil | |
| x Longleaf Pine |
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Pinus palustris, commonly known as the Longleaf Pine, is a pine native to the southeastern 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...
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Alabama | State tree | |
| x Sitka Spruce |
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Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing up to 80 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 the fifth largest conifer in...
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Alaska | State tree | |
| x Parkinsonia florida |
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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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Pinus taeda (Loblolly Pine) is one of several pines native to the Southeastern United States, from central Texas east to Florida, and north to Delaware and Southern New Jersey. It is particularly dominant in the eastern half of North Carolina, where...
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Arkansas | State tree | |
| x Blue Spruce |
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Picea pungens, also known as the Blue Spruce or Colorado Blue Spruce, is a species of spruce native primarily to the Western United States, and also the Northeastern U.S. and south-central Eastern Canada.
Picea pungens is widely occurring in the...
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Colorado | State tree | |
| Utah | State tree | ||||
| x White oak |
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Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak of the Fagaceae family, native to eastern North America and found from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota and south to northern...
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Connecticut | State tree | |
| Illinois | State tree | ||||
| Maryland | State tree | ||||
| x American Holly |
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Ilex opaca, the American Holly, is a species of holly, native to the eastern United States, from coastal Massachusetts south to central Florida, and west to southeastern Missouri and eastern Texas.
Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen...
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Delaware | State tree | |
