List of U.S. state and territory trees

This is a list of U.S. state and territory trees, including official trees of the following states and U.S. territories (and the District of Columbia).

Table

StateState treeBinomial
nomenclature		ImageYear
Alabama Longleaf PinePinus palustris1949
clarified 1997[1]
Alaska Sitka SprucePicea sitchensis1962
American Samoa PandanusPandanus
Arizona Blue Palo VerdeParkinsonia florida1954
Arkansas Loblolly PinePinus taeda1939
California Coast RedwoodSequoia sempervirens1937
Giant SequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum1937
Colorado Colorado Blue SprucePicea pungens1939
Connecticut White Oak
(See Also: Charter)		Quercus alba1947
Delaware American HollyIlex opaca1939
District of Columbia Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
Florida Sabal PalmSabal palmetto1953
Georgia Southern Live OakQuercus virginiana1937
Guam Instia bijuga / Pacific TeakIntsia bijuga1969[2]
Hawaii Candlenut TreeAleurites moluccanus1959
Idaho Western White PinePinus monticola1935
Illinois White OakQuercus alba1973
Indiana Tulip TreeLiriodendron tulipifera1931 [3]
Iowa Bur OakQuercus macrocarpa
Kansas Eastern CottonwoodPopulus deltoides1937[4]
Kentucky Tulip-treeLiriodendron tulipifera[5]
Louisiana Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
Maine Eastern White PinePinus strobus1945
Maryland White Oak
(see also: Wye Oak)		Quercus alba
Massachusetts American ElmUlmus americana1941
Michigan Eastern White PinePinus strobus1955
Minnesota Red PinePinus resinosa
Mississippi Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
Missouri Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
Montana Ponderosa PinePinus ponderosa
Nebraska Eastern CottonwoodPopulus deltoides
Nevada Single-leaf PinyonPinus monophylla[6]1959
Great Basin Bristlecone pinePinus longaeva[6]1987
New Hampshire American White BirchBetula papyrifera1947
New Jersey Northern Red OakQuercus rubra
New Mexico Piñon PinePinus edulis1949[7]
New York Sugar MapleAcer saccharum
North Carolina PinePinus1963[8]
North Dakota American ElmUlmus americana2007
Northern Mariana Islands Flame TreeDelonix regia1979[2]
Ohio Ohio BuckeyeAesculus glabra
Oklahoma Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
Oregon Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii
Pennsylvania Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
Puerto Rico Silk-cotton TreeCeiba pentandra
Rhode Island Red MapleAcer rubrum1964
South Carolina Sabal PalmSabal palmetto1939[9]
South Dakota Black Hills SprucePicea glauca
var. densata		1947[10]
Tennessee Tulip-treeLiriodendron tulipifera
Texas PecanCarya illinoinensis1919
US Virgin Islands Yellow ElderTecoma stans
Utah Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides2014[11]
Vermont Sugar MapleAcer saccharum1949
Virginia Flowering dogwoodCornus florida
Washington Western HemlockTsuga heterophylla[12]
West Virginia Sugar MapleAcer saccharum
Wisconsin Sugar MapleAcer saccharum1949[13]
Wyoming Plains CottonwoodPopulus deltoides
subsp. monilifera

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Official Alabama Tree". Alabama Emblems, Symbols and Honors. Alabama Department of Archives & History. 2003-11-06. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
  2. 1 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=sg0tpwxPI6wC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false State Botanical Symbols. Alan McPherson. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Ind. Code §1-2-7-1 (1931)
  4. ↑ "Tidbits". Ludington Daily News. Aug 4, 2001. p. 33. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.lrc.ky.gov/krs/002%2D00/095.pdf KRS002.095
  6. 1 2 "Nevada Facts and State Emblems". State of Nevada. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  7. ↑ "New Mexico Secretary of State: KID'S Corner". Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  8. ↑ "North Carolina State Tree".
  9. ↑ "South Carolina Statehouse student web page". Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
  10. ↑ "South Dakota State symbols and emblems". Retrieved 2008-10-20.
  11. ↑ from KSL.com "Utah state tree changes thanks to elementary students" page. Retrieved on March 27, 2014
  12. ↑ "Symbols of Washington State". Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on March 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
  13. ↑ "Wisconsin State Symbols". State of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2011-12-19.

References

  • "State Trees and State Flowers". United States National Arboretum. 14 July 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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