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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. {FOOTNOTE} 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 | {FANCYTABLE} !Links * State Symbols https://statesymbolsusa.org/ {footnotearea }
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