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The state motto and seal have been official since Virginia declared its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Virginia is one of only two states (the other being Mississippi with the Magnolia) to have the same plant for state flower and state tree, the Flowering Dogwood. [1] Most of the symbols were made official in the late 20th century.
(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 ...
Monarch butterfly (state butterfly) Danaus plexippus: 2000 [29] Rusty patched bumblebee (state bee) Bombus affinis: 2019 [30] Mississippi: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1980 [31] Spicebush swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio troilus: 1991 [31] Missouri: European honey bee: Apis mellifera: 1985 [32] Montana: Mourning cloak ...
The inflorescence is a nodding group, or cyme of flowers located at the end of the arched stems. [3] The flower buds are pink, and the opened flowers are usually light blue, but occasionally pink and rarely white. [2] The flowers have 5 shallow lobes fused into a tube at the base of the flower, five stamens, and a central pistil . [3]
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Like the different birth month flowers, birthstones, and favorite color, each type of butterfly has its own special symbolism associated with it. Butterflies come in almost all colors of the ...
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is a larger species of butterfly and can have up to a 5.5 inch wingspread. This beautiful butterfly species can be seen from springtime until the fall and produces ...
Papilioninae: swallowtails (37 species) Hesperiidae: skippers (300 species) Pyrrhopyginae: firetips (1 species) Pyrginae: spread-wing skippers (138 species) Heteropterinae: skipperlings (7 species) Hesperiinae: grass skippers (141 species) Megathyminae: giant-skippers (13 species) Pieridae: whites and sulphurs (70 species) Pierinae: whites (29 ...