Official State Flowers
There is variation among the states in the way they have officially designated flowers to represent them. Some states designate an official state flower. Some states designate an official state floral emblem. Some states designate both an official flower and floral emblem. States have also designated wildflowers and one state has designated an official cultivated flower.
| Official flowers listed by adoption year. (List by state or year) | ||||
| State | Name | Designated as | Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | Pink and white lady slipper (Cypripedium reginae) | Official flower | 1893 | |
| Oklahoma | Mistletoe | Floral emblem | 1893 | |
| Vermont | Red clover | State flower | 1894 | |
| Delaware | Peach blossom | Official State flower | 1895 | |
| Maine | White pine cone and tassel | Floral emblem | 1895 | |
| Montana | Lewisia rediviva (bitterroot) | Floral emblem | 1895 | |
| Nebraska | Golden rod (Solidago serotina) | Floral emblem | 1895 | |
| Iowa | Wild rose | Official State flower | 1897 | |
| Michigan | Apple blossom | State flower | 1897 | |
| Colorado | White and lavender columbine | State flower | 1899 | |
| Oregon | Oregon grape | Official flower | 1899 | |
| Louisiana | Magnolia | State flower | 1900 | |
| Arkansas | Apple blossom | State floral emblem | 1901 | |
| Texas | Bluebonnet | State flower | 1901 | |
| California | Golden poppy (Eschscholzia) | Official State flower | 1903 | |
| Kansas | Wild native sunflower | State flower and floral emblem | 1903 | |
| South Dakota | American pasque flower (Pulsatilla hirsutissima) with motto | State floral emblem | 1903 | |
| West Virginia | Big laurel | Official State flower | 1903 | |
| Ohio | Scarlet carnation | State flower | 1904 | |
| North Dakota | Wild prairie rose (Rosa blanda or arkansana) | Floral emblem | 1907 | |
| Connecticut | Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) | State flower | 1907 | |
| Illinois | Native violet | Native State flower | 1908 | |
| Florida | Orange blossom | State flower | 1909 | |
| Utah | Sego lily | State flower | 1911 | |
| Georgia | Cherokee rose | Floral emblem | 1916 | |
| Alaska | Wild native forget-me-not | State flower and floral emblem | 1917 | |
| Wyoming | Castillija linariaefolia (Indian paint brush) | State flower | 1917 | |
| Maryland | Black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) | State flower | 1918 | |
| Massachusetts | Mayflower (Epigaea repens) | Flower or floral emblem | 1918 | |
| Virginia | American dogwood (Cornus florida) | Floral emblem | 1918 | |
| New Hampshire | Purple lilac (Syringa vulgaris) | State flower | 1919 | |
| Missouri | Hawthorn blossom (Crataegus) | Floral emblem | 1923 | |
| South Carolina | Yellow jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) | State flower | 1924 | |
| Kentucky | Goldenrod | Official State flower | 1926 | |
| New Mexico | Yucca flower | Official flower | 1927 | |
| Idaho | Syringa (Philadelphus lewisii) | State flower | 1931 | |
| Pennsylvania | Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) | State flower | 1933 | |
| Tennessee | Iris (Iridaceae) | State cultivated flower | 1933 | |
| North Carolina | Dogwood | Official flower | 1941 | |
| Washington | Rhododendron macrophyllum | Official flower | 1949 | |
| Wisconsin | Wood violet (Viola papilionacea) | State flower | 1949 | |
| Mississippi | Flower of the magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora L.) | State flower | 1952 | |
| New York | Rose | Official flower | 1955 | |
| Indiana | Peony (Paeonia) | Official State flower | 1957 | |
| Alabama | Camellia (Camellia japonica L.) | Official State flower | 1959 | |
| Nevada | Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata or trifida) | Official State flower | 1967 | |
| Rhode Island | Violet (Viola sororia) | State flower | 1968 | |
| New Jersey | Common meadow violet (V. sororia) | State flower | 1972 | |
| Arizona | Saguaro cactus flower (Cereus giganteus) | State flower | 1973 | |
| Tennessee | Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) | State wild flower | 1973 | |
| Oklahoma | Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) | Official State wild flower | 1986 | |
| Ohio | Large white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) | State wild flower | 1987 | |
| Hawaii | Native yellow hibiscus (Hibiscus brackenridgei A. Gray) | Official flower | 1988 | |
| Louisiana | Louisiana iris (Giganticaerulea) | Official State wildflower | 1990 | |
| Florida | Coreopsis | Official Florida State wildflower | 1991 | |
| New Hampshire | Pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule) | Official State wildflower | 1991 | |
| Michigan | Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris) | Official wildflower | 1998 | |
| Alabama | Oak-leaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia Bartr.) | Official State wildflower | 1999 | |
| South Carolina | Goldenrod (Solidago altissima) | Official State wildflower | 2003 | |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoma rose | Official flower | 2004 | |
| Texas | Nymphaea, Texas Dawn | State waterlily | 2011 | |
| Tennessee | Tennessee echinacea (Echinacea tennesseensis) | State wild flower | 2012 | |
| Georgia | Azalea Native azaleas |
State wild flower State wild flower |
1979 2013 |
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| Connecticut | Michaela Petit's four-o'clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) | Children's state flower | 2015 | |
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Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada, by William Cullina. 314 pages. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 15, 2000) This most complete and authoritative guide to North American wildflowers offers clear and detailed information on growing and propagating 200 genera and 1,000 species of these precious plants. No matter what your level of interest -- whether it is to introduce a few plants into your garden or to learn how to propagate them for yourself or for sales, this book will inspire as well as inform you. With Cullina's guidance, you'll learn in which parts of the continent the plants are found in the wild, and -- even more helpful -- where and how to succeed with them in your own garden wherever you live. As open land disappears, so too do many of the native plants that once flourished on this continent. Gardeners may be their last resort. |
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U. S. State Flowers in Counted Cross Stitch , by Gerda Bengtsson. 99 pages. Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold (April 1977) One of greatest living designers of charted cross-stitch offers exquisite, botanically correct cross stitch designs of state flowers of the 50 States. Not currently in print, but definitely worth picking up a good used copy. |
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Quilting Flowers of the States, by Sue Harvey. 146 pages. House of White Birches (January 2003) Create a great 12-inch flower block for each of the 50 states. Techniques used are piecing, appliqué, paper-piecing and three-dimensional techniques. |
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