History: United States of America State Trees

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{img type="fileId" fileId="631" thumb="box" height="180" desc="State Tree Map" alt="state tree map" styleimage="border" align="left"}For the United States of America, the state trees are symbols of pride from the West Coast to the East Coast and from the southern coastal shores and borders of the south to the northern border along the country of Canada, and to the Hawaiian Islands.
The concept of State Trees originated in 1893 as states were a relatively fresh idea. While at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition|World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago] a women's congress suggested a "National Garland of Flowers" made of flowers representing each state.
Inhabitants from each state were to chose their state flower that reflected that part of the US of which they came from. The choices were then adopted by state legislators.

The idea was a success and soon after other natural treasures were adopted into each state as representations, state flowers, state fish, state birds, and more.{FOOTNOTE()}“Do You Know Your State Tree?” TreeHugger, https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/do-you-know-your-state-tree.html Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
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Except for Hawaii, all the designated state trees are native to their land.

{FANCYTABLE(head="State |Tree |Year |Scientific" sortable="y")}Alabama|((Longleaf Pine|Southern Longleaf Pine)) |1949 |Pinus Pasustris 
Alaska|((Sitka Spruce|Sitka Spruce ))|1962 |Picea Sitchensis (Bongard) Carriere 
Arizona|Palo Verde |1954 |
Arkansas|((Loblolly Pine)) |1939 |Pinus Taeda Linnaeus
California|((Redwood|California Redwood)) |1937 |Sequoia Sempervirens (D. Don) Endlicher
Colorado|Colorado Blue Spruce |1939 |
Connecticut|White Oak |1947 |
Delaware|American Holly |1939 |
Florida|Sabal Palm |1953 |
Georgia|Live Oak |1937 |
Hawaii|Kukui or Candlenut |1959 |
Idaho|((Western White Pine)) |1935 |Pinus Monticola Douglas 
Illinois|White Oak |1973 |
Indiana|Tulip Tree |1931 |
Iowa|Oak |1961 |
Kansas|Cottonwood |1937 |
Kentucky|Tulip Poplar |1994 |
Louisiana|((Bald Cypress|Baldcypress)) |1963 |Taxodium distichum 
Maine|((Eastern White Pine|White Pine)) |1945 |Pinus Strobus Linnaeus 
Maryland|White Oak |1941 |
Massachusetts|Elm |1941 |
Michigan|((Eastern White Pine|White Pine)) |1955 |Pinus Strobus Linnaeus 
Minnesota|((Red Pine)) or (Norway Pine) |1953 |Pinus Resinosa Aiton 
Mississippi|Magnolia |1938 |
Missouri|Flowering Dogwood |1955 |
Montana|((Ponderosa Pine)) |1949 |Pinus Ponderosa Lawson 
Nebraska|Eastern Cottonwood |1972 |
Nevada|Single-Leaf Pinyon |1959 |
New Hampshire|White Birch |1947 |
New Jersey|Red Oak |1950 |
New Mexico|((Pinyon Pine)) |1949 |Pinus Edulis Engelman 
New York|Sugar Maple |1956 |
North Carolina|Pine |1953 |
North Dakota|American Elm |1947 |
Ohio|The Buckeye |1953 |
Oklahoma|Redbud |1937 |
Oregon|((Douglas Fir|The Douglas Fir)) |1939 |Pseudotsuga Taxifolia (Poiret) Britton 
Pennsylvania|Hemlock |1931 |
Rhode Island|Red Maple |1964 |
South Carolina|Carolina Palmetto |1939 |
South Dakota|Black Hills Spruce |1947 |
Tennessee|Tulip Poplar |1947 |
Texas|((Pecan)) |1919 |Carya Illinoensis (Wangenheim) K. Koch 
Utah|Blue Spruce |1933 |
Vermont|Sugar Maple |1949 |
Virginia|American Dogwood |1956 |
Washington|((Western Hemlock)) |1947 |Tsuga Heterophylla (Rafinesque) Sargent 
West Virginia|Sugar Maple |1949 |
Wisconsin|Sugar Maple |1949 |
Wyoming|Plains Cottonwood |1947 | 
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