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National/state Flowers Of America (part 1)

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More than fourscore and seven years ago as the American founding fathers bound together their great states, visual ideas and symbolisms had to be agreed upon to properly represent the country as a whole. Bit by bit lawmakers beefed up their pride scale and pass these embellishments into law.

Presently, the national flower of America is the genus Rosa or more commonly known as the Rose.

As most nations developed more cultural icons containing national, state or regional pride came into meaning. Logically, most of these icons are the items that a place or locality is best known for. According to http://www.50states.com/oregon.htm, the state flag of Oregon uses a beaver on its reverse side; Iowa uses a bald eagle and California uses a Grizzly Bear.

Montana uses the pick, shovel and plow, while a Shield is used by New Jersey. Massachusetts uses an American Indian while Alaska uses the color blue to symbolize nature along with their wildflowers. But enough about flags.

What this article discusses are the state flowers or floral emblems that represents the majority of the US states and the official national ...
... flower.

The majority of the research material for this article was taken from www.netstate.com/states.

Starting off with the great state of Alabama, that first had the Goldenrod as its state flower in 1927. 30 years later an elite ladies group disagreed with this and made a plea to change it to the Camellia (Camellia japonica) although it is originally from China. They took notice that the Goldenrod was more of a weed and a wildflower and got their way by 1959. But just to add to that the State also selected an official wildflower soon thereafter and that is the oak-leaf hydrangea.

Alaska's choice was rooted in its history almost a hundred years ago. The early settlers who formed a lodge called the Grand Igloo selected the diminutive for-get-me-not. In 1913 this was brought into legislation through the use of a poem and finally this was passed into law by 1959 as the official flower and floral emblem of the 49th state.

As far back as 1863, Arizona already had the giant cactus on their state seal. Although the seal underwent numerous versions over the years the floral bloom of the giant cactus was eventually chosen in 1901. Officially it is called the Saguaro Cactus Blossom.

Arkansas on the other hand refers the Apple Blossom as the state's floral emblem. This went through a tumultuous affair as choice was quite a battle between two Women's Club's with the Passion Flower losing the affair.

California as one of the more famous of the 50 states chose between 3 candidates in the 1890's. These were the the California poppy (Eschscholzia), the Mariposa lily (Calochortus) and the Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri). It took over 13 years for this to translated into law but still the California Poppy stood tall and is now regarding as the State's best representative.

14,472 votes of school children made the Rocky Mountain Columbine, officially known as the White and Lavender Columbine, as Colorado's choice. Quite fond of their natural resources, citizens enacted a law to protect this resource in 1929.

Connecticut, which is another mountainous area, adopted the Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) as its official flower in 1907 right after approving the state seal and flag.

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