State Symbols

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Alabama	“Alabama” (1931)	yellowhammer (1927)	Southern longleaf pine (1949, 1997)	camellia (1959)
Alabama	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
Alaska	“Alaska's Flag” (1955)	willow ptarmigan (1955)	sitka spruce (1962)	forget-me-not (1949)
Alaska	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
Arizona	“Arizona” (1919)	cactus wren (1931)	palo verde (1954)	flower of saguaro cactus (1931)
Arizona	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
Arkansas	“Arkansas” (1963)	mockingbird (1929)	pine (1939)	apple blossom (1901)
Arkansas	Insect: honeybee (1973)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
California	“I Love You, California” (1951)	California valley quail (1931)	California redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens & Sequoiadendron giganteum) (1937, 1953)	golden poppy (1903)
California	Animal: California grizzly bear (1953); Fish: California golden trout (1947); Colors: blue and gold (1951)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Colorado	“Where the Columbines Grow” (1915)	lark bunting (1931)	Colorado blue spruce (1939)	Rocky Mountain columbine (1899)
Colorado	Animal: Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (1961); Gemstone: aquamarine (1971); Colors: blue and white (1911); Fossil: stegosaurus (1991)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Connecticut	“Yankee Doodle” (1978)	American robin (1943)	white oak (1947)	mountain laurel (1907)
Connecticut	Animal: sperm whale (1975); Hero: Nathan Hale (1985); Heroine: Prudence Crandall (1995); Insect: praying mantis (1977); Mineral: garnet (1977); Ship: USS Nautilus (1983); Shellfish: eastern oyster (1989); Fossil: Eubrontes Giganteus (1991); Composer: Charles Edward Ives (1991)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Delaware	“Our Delaware”	blue hen chicken (1939)	American holly (1939)	peach blossom (1895)
Delaware	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
Florida	“Suwannee River” (1935)	mockingbird (1927)		orange blossom (1909)
Florida	Butterfly: Zebra longwing butterfly (1996); Saltwater Fish: sailfish; Freshwater Fish: largemouth bass

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Georgia	“Georgia on My Mind” (1922)	brown thrasher (1935)	live oak (1937)	Cherokee rose (1916)
Georgia	Fruit: peach (1995); Saltwater Mammal: right whale (1985); Crop: peanut (1995)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Hawaii	“Hawaii Ponoi” (1967)	nene (Hawaiian goose) (1957)	kukui (candlenut) (1959)	hibiscus (yellow) (1988)
Hawaii

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Idaho	“Here We Have Idaho”	mountain bluebird (1931)	white pine (1935)	syringa (1931)
Idaho	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
Illinois	“Illinois” (1925)	cardinal (1929)	white oak (1973)	violet (1908)
Illinois	Animal: white-tailed deer (1982); Fish: bluegill (1987); Insect: monarch butterfly (1975); Mineral: fluorite (1965)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Indiana	“On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” (1913)	cardinal (1933)	tulip tree (1931)	peony (1957)
Indiana	River: Wabash; Stone: limestone

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Iowa	“Song of Iowa”	eastern goldfinch (1933)		wild rose (1897)
Iowa	Colors: red, white, and blue (in state flag)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Kansas	“Home on the Range” (1947)	western meadowlark (1937)	cottonwood (1937)	sunflower (1903)
Kansas	Animal: buffalo (1955)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Kentucky	“My Old Kentucky Home”	Kentucky cardinal	tulip poplar (1994)	goldenrod
Kentucky

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Louisiana		eastern brown pelican (1958)	bald cypress (1963)	magnolia (1900)
Louisiana	Songs: “Give Me Louisiana” and “You Are My Sunshine”

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Maine	“State of Maine Song” (1937)	chickadee (1927)	white pine tree (1945)	white pine cone and tassel (1895)
Maine	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
Maryland	“Maryland! My Maryland!” (1939)	Baltimore oriole (1947)	white oak (1941)	black-eyed susan (1918)
Maryland	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
Massachusetts	“All Hail to Massachusetts” (1966)	chickadee (1941)	American elm (1941)	mayflower (1918)
Massachusetts	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
Michigan		robin (1931)	white pine (1955)	apple blossom (1897)
Michigan	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
Minnesota	“Hail Minnesota” (1945)	common loon (also called great northern diver) (1961)	red (or Norway) pine (1953)	lady slipper (1902)
Minnesota	Fish: walleye (1965); Mushroom: morel (1984)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Mississippi	“Go, Mississippi” (1962)	mockingbird (1944)	magnolia (1938)	flower or bloom of the magnolia or evergreen magnolia (1952)
Mississippi	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
Missouri	“Missouri Waltz” (1949)	bluebird (1927)	flowering dogwood (1955)	hawthorn (1923)
Missouri	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
Montana	“Montana” (1945)	Western meadowlark (1981)	ponderosa pine (1949)	bitterroot (1895)
Montana	Stones: sapphire and agate (1969)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Nebraska	“Beautiful Nebraska” (1967)	Western meadowlark (1929)	cottonwood (1972)	goldenrod (1895)
Nebraska	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
Nevada	“Home Means Nevada” (1933)	mountain bluebird (1967)		sagebrush (1959)
Nevada	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
New Hampshire		purple finch (1957)	white birch (1947)	purple lilac (1919)
New Hampshire	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
New Jersey		eastern goldfinch (1935)	red oak (1950)	purple violet (1913)
New Jersey	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
New Mexico	“O Fair New Mexico” (1917)	roadrunner (1949)	pinon (1949)	yucca (1927)
New Mexico	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
New York	“I Love New York” (1980)	bluebird (1970)	sugar maple (1956)	rose (1955)
New York	Animal: beaver (1975); Fish: brook trout (1975); Gem: garnet (1969); Insect: ladybug (1989)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
North Carolina	“The Old North State” (1927)	cardinal (1943)	pine (1963)	dogwood (1941)
North Carolina	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
North Dakota	“North Dakota Hymn” (1947)	western meadowlark (1947)	American elm (1947)	wild prairie rose (1907)
North Dakota	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
Ohio	“Beautiful Ohio” (1969)	cardinal (1933)	buckeye (1953)	scarlet carnation (1904)
Ohio	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
Oklahoma	“Oklahoma” (1953)	scissor-tailed flycatcher (1951)	redbud (1937)	mistletoe (1893)
Oklahoma	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
Oregon	“Oregon, My Oregon” (1927)	western meadowlark (1927)	douglas fir (1939)	Oregon grape (1899)
Oregon	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
Pennsylvania	“Pennsylvania” (1990)	ruffed grouse (1931)	hemlock (1931)	mountain laurel (1933)
Pennsylvania	Dog: Great Dane (1965); Colors: blue and gold (1907)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Rhode Island	“Rhode Island, It's for Me” (1996)	Rhode Island red hen (official) (1954)	red maple (official) (1964)	violet (unofficial) (1968)
Rhode Island	Shell: quahog (official); Mineral: bowenite (1966); Stone: cumberlandite (1966); Colors: blue, white, and gold (in state flag)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
South Carolina	“Carolina” (1911)	Carolina wren (1948)	palmetto tree (1939)	Carolina yellow jessamine (1924)
South Carolina

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
South Dakota	“Hail! South Dakota” (1943)	ring-necked pheasant (1943)	black hills spruce (1947)	American pasqueflower (1903)
South Dakota	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
Tennessee		mockingbird (1933)	tulip poplar (1947)	iris (1933)
Tennessee	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
Texas	“Texas, Our Texas” (1929)	mockingbird (1927)	pecan (1919)	bluebonnet (1901)
Texas	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
Utah	“Utah, We Love Thee” (1953)	California gull (1955)	blue spruce (1933)	sego lily (1911)
Utah	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
Vermont	“These Green Mountains” (2000)	hermit thrush (1941)	sugar maple (1949)	red clover (1894)
Vermont	Animal: Morgan horse (1961); Insect: honeybee (1978)

State	Song	Bird	Tree	Flower
Virginia		cardinal (1950)	dogwood (1956)	American dogwood (1918)
Virginia	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)
Washington	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)
West Virginia	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)
Wisconsin	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)
Wyoming	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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