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State federal district or territory Common name Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Camellia (state flower) Camellia japonica: 1959 (clarified 1999) [1] Oak-leaf hydrangea
The camellia is the state flower of Alabama. [28] The Camellia Bowl is a postseason college football game played in Montgomery, Alabama, hosted by the NCAA. Alexandre Dumas fils wrote the novel and stage adaptation The Lady of the Camellias, wherein the flower is a symbol of a courtesan's sexual availability.
List of Alabama state symbols. The state of Alabama has a total of 41 official state emblems. The oldest symbol is the Alabama State Bible, from 1853. [1] The most recently designated symbol is the peach, Alabama's state tree fruit, established in 2006. Alabama does not have an official nickname, although "Heart of Dixie" was strongly promoted ...
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory trees, including official trees of the following of the states, of the federal district, and of the territories. State federal district or territory. Common name. Scientific name. Image.
Help. WGSRPD code: ALA ( level 3) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of Alabama. This category contains the native flora of Alabama as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
Hymenocallis coronaria, commonly known as the Cahaba lily, shoal lily, or shoals spider-lily, is an aquatic, perennial flowering plant species of the genus Hymenocallis.It is endemic to the Southeastern United States, being found only in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and parts of North Carolina Also found in Florida.
Catherine Coleman Flowers (born 1958) is an American environmental health researcher, writer and the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Her first book, Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret, explores the environmental justice movement in rural ...
Seal of 1817. The first seal was designed in 1817 by William Wyatt Bibb, the governor of the Alabama Territory and the subsequent first governor of the state. When Alabama became a state in 1819, the state legislature adopted the design as the official state seal. The seal prominently features a map showing one of the state's most valuable ...