This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory flowers.
State federal district or territory |
Common name | Scientific name | Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Camellia (state flower) |
Camellia japonica | ![]() |
1959 (clarified 1999)[1] |
Oak-leaf hydrangea (state wildflower) |
Hydrangea quercifolia | ![]() |
1999[2] | |
Alaska | Forget-me-not | Myosotis alpestris | ![]() |
1917[3] |
American Samoa | Paogo (Ulafala) | Pandanus tectorius | ![]() |
1973[4] |
Arizona | Saguaro cactus blossom | Carnegiea gigantea | ![]() |
1931[5] |
Arkansas | Apple blossom | Malus | ![]() |
1901[6] |
California | California poppy | Eschscholzia californica | ![]() |
1903[7] |
Colorado | Colorado blue columbine | Aquilegia coerulea | ![]() |
1899[8] |
Connecticut | Mountain laurel (state flower) |
Kalmia latifolia | ![]() |
1907[9] |
Michaela Petit's Four-O’Clocks (children's state flower) |
Mirabilis jalapa | 2015[10] | ||
Delaware | Peach blossom | Prunus persica | ![]() |
1953[11] |
District of Columbia | American Beauty Rose | Rosa | ![]() |
1925[4] |
Florida | Orange blossom (state flower) |
Citrus sinensis | ![]() |
1909[12] |
Tickseed (state wildflower) |
Coreopsis spp. | ![]() |
1991[13] | |
Georgia | Cherokee rose (state floral emblem) |
Rosa laevigata | ![]() |
1916[14] |
Azalea (state wildflower) |
Rhododendron | ![]() |
1979[15] | |
Guam | Bougainvillea spectabilis | Bougainvillea spectabilis | ![]() |
1968[4] |
Hawaii | Hawaiian hibiscus (maʻo hau hele) |
Hibiscus brackenridgei | ![]() |
1988[16][17] |
Idaho | Syringa, mock orange | Philadelphus lewisii | ![]() |
1931[18] |
Illinois | Violet (state flower) |
Viola | ![]() |
1907[19] |
Milkweed (state wildflower) |
Asclepias spp. | 2017[20] | ||
Indiana | Peony | Paeonia | ![]() |
1957[21] |
Iowa | Wild rose | Rosa arkansana | ![]() |
1897[22][23] |
Kansas | Sunflower | Helianthus annuus | ![]() |
1903[24] |
Kentucky | Goldenrod | Solidago gigantea | ![]() |
1926[25] |
Louisiana | Magnolia (state flower) |
Magnolia | ![]() |
1900[26] |
Louisiana iris (state wildflower) |
Iris giganticaerulea | ![]() |
1990[27] | |
Maine | White pine cone and tassel | Pinus strobus | 1895[28] | |
Maryland | Black-eyed susan | Rudbeckia hirta | 1918[29] | |
Massachusetts | Mayflower | Epigaea repens | ![]() |
1918[30] |
Michigan | Apple blossom (state flower) |
Malus | ![]() |
1897[31] |
Dwarf lake iris (state wildflower) |
Iris lacustris | ![]() |
1998[32] | |
Minnesota | Pink and white lady's slipper | Cypripedium reginae | ![]() |
1902 (enacted 1967)[33][34] |
Mississippi | Magnolia (state flower) |
Magnolia | ![]() |
1900 (enacted 1952)[35] |
Tickseed (state wildflower) |
Coreopsis | ![]() |
1991[36] | |
Missouri | Hawthorn | Crataegus | ![]() |
1923[37] |
Montana | Bitterroot | Lewisia rediviva | ![]() |
1894[38] |
Nebraska | Goldenrod | Solidago gigantea | ![]() |
1895[39] |
Nevada | Sagebrush | Artemisia tridentata | ![]() |
1967[40] |
New Hampshire | Purple lilac (state flower) |
Syringa vulgaris | ![]() |
1919[41] |
Pink lady's slipper (state wildflower) |
Cypripedium acaule | ![]() |
1991[41] | |
New Jersey | Violet | Viola sororia | ![]() |
1971[42][43] |
New Mexico | Yucca flower | Yucca | ![]() |
1927[44] |
New York | Rose | Rosa | ![]() |
1955[45] |
North Carolina | Flowering dogwood (state flower) |
Cornus florida | 1941[46] | |
Carolina lily (state wildflower) |
Lilium michauxii | ![]() |
2003[47][48] | |
North Dakota | Wild prairie rose | Rosa blanda or arkansana |
![]() |
1907[49] |
Northern Mariana Islands | Flores mayo | Plumeria | ![]() |
1979[4] |
Ohio | Scarlet carnation (state flower) |
Dianthus caryophyllus | ![]() |
1953[50] |
Large white trillium (state wild flower) |
Trillium grandiflorum | ![]() |
1987[51] | |
Oklahoma | Oklahoma rose (state flower) |
Rosa | ![]() |
2004[52] |
Indian blanket (state wildflower) |
Gaillardia pulchella | ![]() |
1986[52] | |
Mistletoe (state floral emblem) |
Phoradendron leucarpum | ![]() |
1893[52] | |
Oregon | Oregon grape | Berberis aquifolium | ![]() |
1899[53] |
Pennsylvania | Mountain laurel (state flower) |
Kalmia latifolia | ![]() |
1933[54] |
Penngift crown vetch (beautification and conservation plant) |
Coronilla varia | ![]() |
1982[54] | |
Puerto Rico | Flor de Maga | Thespesia grandiflora | ![]() |
2019[55][56] |
Rhode Island | Violet | Viola | ![]() |
1968[57][58] |
South Carolina | Yellow jessamine (state flower) |
Gelsemium sempervirens | ![]() |
1924[59] |
Goldenrod (state wildflower) |
Solidago altissima | ![]() |
2003[60] | |
South Dakota | Pasque flower | Pulsatilla hirsutissima | ![]() |
1903[61] |
Tennessee | Iris (state cultivated flower) |
Iris | ![]() |
1933[62] |
Purple passionflower (state wildflower 1) |
Passiflora incarnata | ![]() |
1919[62] | |
Tennessee purple coneflower (state wildflower 2) |
Echinacea tennesseensis | ![]() |
2012[62] | |
Texas | Bluebonnet sp. | Lupinus sp. | ![]() |
1901 (broadened in 1971)[63] |
Utah | Sego lily | Calochortus nuttallii | ![]() |
1911[64] |
Vermont | Red clover | Trifolium pratense | ![]() |
1894[65] |
Virgin Islands | Yellow Elder | Tecoma stans | ![]() |
1934[4] |
Virginia | American dogwood | Cornus florida | ![]() |
1918[66][67] |
Washington | Coast rhododendron | Rhododendron macrophyllum | 1892 (officially 1959)[68] | |
West Virginia | Rhododendron | Rhododendron maximum | ![]() |
1903[69] |
Wisconsin | Wood violet | Viola papilionacea | ![]() |
1909[70] |
Wyoming | Indian paintbrush | Castilleja linariifolia | ![]() |
1917[71][72] |
See also
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