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Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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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Connecticut | “Yankee Doodle” (1978) | American robin (1943) | white oak (1947) | mountain laurel (1907) |
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 |
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Delaware | “Our Delaware” | blue hen chicken (1939) | American holly (1939) | peach blossom (1895) |
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) | orange blossom (1909) | |
Butterfly: Zebra longwing butterfly (1996); Saltwater Fish: sailfish; Freshwater Fish: largemouth bass | ||||
State | Song | Bird | Tree | Flower |
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Georgia | “Georgia on My Mind” (1922) | brown thrasher (1935) | live oak (1937) | Cherokee rose (1916) |
Fruit: peach (1995); Saltwater Mammal: right whale (1985); Crop: peanut (1995) | ||||
State | Song | Bird | Tree | Flower |
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Hawaii | “Hawaii Ponoi” (1967) | nene (Hawaiian goose) (1957) | kukui (candlenut) (1959) | hibiscus (yellow) (1988) |
State | Song | Bird | Tree | Flower |
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Idaho | “Here We Have Idaho” | mountain bluebird (1931) | white pine (1935) | syringa (1931) |
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) |
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) |
River: Wabash; Stone: limestone |
State | Song | Bird | Tree | Flower |
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Iowa | “Song of Iowa” | eastern goldfinch (1933) | wild rose (1897) | |
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) |
Animal: buffalo (1955) |
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Kentucky | “My Old Kentucky Home” | Kentucky cardinal | tulip poplar (1994) | goldenrod |
State | Song | Bird | Tree | Flower |
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Louisiana | eastern brown pelican (1958) | bald cypress (1963) | magnolia (1900) | |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 | robin (1931) | white pine (1955) | apple blossom (1897) | |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) | sagebrush (1959) | |
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 | purple finch (1957) | white birch (1947) | purple lilac (1919) | |
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 | eastern goldfinch (1935) | red oak (1950) | purple violet (1913) | |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Dog: Great Dane (1965); Colors: blue and gold (1907) |
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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) |
Shell: quahog (official); Mineral: bowenite (1966); Stone: cumberlandite (1966); Colors: blue, white, and gold (in state flag) |
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South Carolina | “Carolina” (1911) | Carolina wren (1948) | palmetto tree (1939) | Carolina yellow jessamine (1924) |
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South Dakota | “Hail! South Dakota” (1943) | ring-necked pheasant (1943) | black hills spruce (1947) | American pasqueflower (1903) |
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 | mockingbird (1933) | tulip poplar (1947) | iris (1933) | |
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) |
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Texas | “Texas, Our Texas” (1929) | mockingbird (1927) | pecan (1919) | bluebonnet (1901) |
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) |
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) |
Animal: Morgan horse (1961); Insect: honeybee (1978) |
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Virginia | cardinal (1950) | dogwood (1956) | American dogwood (1918) | |
Dog: American foxhound (1966); Shell: oyster shell (1974) |
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Washington | “Washington, My Home” (1959) | willow goldfinch (1951) | western hemlock (1947) | coast rhododendron (1892) |
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 |
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West Virginia | cardinal (1949) | sugar maple (1949) | rhododendron (1903) | |
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 |
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Wisconsin | “On Wisconsin” | robin (1949) | sugar maple (1949) | wood violet (1949) |
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 |
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Wyoming | “Wyoming” (1955) | western meadowlark (1927) | cottonwood (1947) | Indian paintbrush (1917) |
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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