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The Yorkist rose is used in the seal of the City of York, Pennsylvania, which is known as "White Rose City". The town's minor league baseball team, which played in different leagues for several decades, was called the York White Roses. The white rose appears on one of the hats for York's current minor league baseball team, the York Revolution.
Rosa × alba, the white rose of York, is a hybrid rose of unknown parentage [1] that has been cultivated in Europe since ancient times. [2] It may have originally been grown mainly for the sweet scent of the flowers, but is now also used as a winter-hardy garden shrub. [2] Cultivated forms have white or pink flowers, and most have many petals.
Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a pretender to the English crown.Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England.
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The flag features a "rose-en-soleil" device first used by Edward IV upon his accession to the throne, combining the White Rose of the House of York with the Sun emblem used by his royal predecessor, Richard II. In essence the rose-en-soleil is a more elaborate version of the white rose emblem associated with the county and had been used by the ...
The Tudor rose is a combination of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white ...
The hybrid tea rose was developed at Oklahoma State University by Herbert C. Swim and O. L. Weeks before 1963 and introduced in 1964. It was hybridised from the cultivars 'Chrysler Imperial' (Lammerts, 1952) and 'Charles Mallerin' (Meilland, 1947). In 2004, the Oklahoma Rose became the official state flower of Oklahoma.
The club used "York" blue as its colour until the sports union unification in 2012, at which point the official colours changed to black and gold. As of 2025, the club has returned to racing in York blue to reflect its origins and history. The club's blade design is black with a white rose of York. The blazer of the club remains blue with white ...