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Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado columbine, Rocky Mountain columbine, or blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains and some of the surrounding states of the western United States. It is the state flower of Colorado. The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means ...
(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 ...
Colorado state government logo [5] See Colorado state logo. March 26, 2019 [5] ... Flower: Rocky Mountain columbine [12] Aquilegia coerulea: April 4, 1899 SB 261-1899
The Colorado blue columbine (A. coerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado (see also Columbine, Colorado). It is also used as a symbol of the former city of Scarborough in the Canadian province of Ontario. [24] Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) growing in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore near Glen Arbor, Michigan
Colorado: Colorado blue spruce: Picea pungens: 1939 [10] Connecticut: White oak ... "State Trees and State Flowers". United States National Arboretum. July 14, 2010.
It officially became Colorado's state tree on 7 March 1939 when House Joint Resolution 7 was enacted by the legislature. Previously a vote of the state's school children was taken on Arbor Day in 1892 expressing their preference for the blue spruce as the state tree. [68] From 1933 until 2014 the blue spruce was also the state tree of Utah.
The sand desert shrub (SDS) is a plant community, or vegetation type, found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region in areas of shifting sands or very sandy soils. [ 1 ] : 3 Dominant plant species include old man sage ( Artemisia filifolia ), yucca , Indian ricegrass ( Stipa hymenoides ), and wavy leaf oak ( Quercus welshii ).
Flora of Colorado (1 C, 332 P) Flora of Connecticut (2 C, 31 P) D. Flora of Delaware (23 P) F. ... List of U.S. state and territory flowers; List of U.S. state and ...