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 | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Longleaf pine | Pinus palustris | 1949 clarified 1997 | |
Alaska | Sitka spruce | Picea sitchensis | 1962 | |
American Samoa | None | |||
Arizona | Blue palo verde | Parkinsonia florida | 1954 | |
Arkansas | Loblolly pine | Pinus taeda | 1939 | |
California | Coast redwood | Sequoia sempervirens | 1937 | |
Giant sequoia | Sequoiadendron giganteum | |||
Colorado | Colorado blue spruce | Picea pungens | 1939 | |
Connecticut | White oak (See also: Charter Oak) |
Quercus alba | 1947 | |
Delaware | American holly | Ilex opaca | 1939 | |
District of Columbia | Scarlet oak | Quercus coccinea | 1960 | |
Florida | Sabal palm | Sabal palmetto | 1953 | |
Georgia | Southern live oak | Quercus virginiana | 1937 | |
Guam | Ifit (Pacific teak) | Intsia bijuga | 1969 | |
Hawaii | Candlenut tree (kukui) | Aleurites moluccanus | 1959 | |
Idaho | Western white pine | Pinus monticola | 1935 | |
Illinois | White oak | Quercus alba | 1973 | |
Indiana | Tulip tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | 1931 | |
Iowa | Oak (variety unspecified) | Quercus spp. | 1961 | |
Kansas | Eastern cottonwood | Populus deltoides | 1937 | |
Kentucky | Tulip-tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | ||
Louisiana | Bald cypress | Taxodium distichum | 1963 | |
Maine | Eastern white pine | Pinus strobus | 1945 | |
Maryland | White oak (See also: Wye Oak) |
Quercus alba | 1941 | |
Massachusetts | American elm | Ulmus americana | 1941 | |
Michigan | Eastern white pine | Pinus strobus | 1955 | |
Minnesota | Red pine (aka Norway pine) | Pinus resinosa | 1953 | |
Mississippi | Southern magnolia | Magnolia grandiflora | 1952 | |
Missouri | Flowering dogwood | Cornus florida | 1955 | |
Montana | Ponderosa pine | Pinus ponderosa | 1949 | |
Nebraska | Eastern cottonwood | Populus deltoides | 1972 | |
Nevada | Single-leaf pinyon | Pinus monophylla | 1959 | |
Great Basin bristlecone pine | Pinus longaeva | 1987 | ||
New Hampshire | American white birch | Betula papyrifera | 1947 | |
New Jersey | Northern red oak | Quercus rubra | 1950 | |
New Mexico | Piñon pine | Pinus edulis | 1949 | |
New York | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1956 | |
North Carolina | Pine | Pinus | 1963 | |
North Dakota | American elm | Ulmus americana | 1947 | |
Northern Mariana Islands | Flame tree | Delonix regia | 1979 | |
Ohio | Ohio buckeye | Aesculus glabra | 1953 | |
Oklahoma | Eastern redbud | Cercis canadensis | 1971 | |
Oregon | Douglas fir | Pseudotsuga menziesii | 1939 | |
Pennsylvania | Eastern hemlock | Tsuga canadensis | 1931 | |
Puerto Rico | Ceiba (unofficial) | Ceiba pentandra | ||
Rhode Island | Red maple | Acer rubrum | 1964 | |
South Carolina | Sabal palm | Sabal palmetto | 1939 | |
South Dakota | Black Hills spruce | Picea glauca var. densata |
1947 | |
Tennessee | Tulip-tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | 1947 | |
Texas | Pecan | Carya illinoinensis | 1919 | |
United States Virgin Islands | None | |||
Utah | Quaking aspen | Populus tremuloides | 2014 | |
Vermont | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Virginia | Flowering dogwood | Cornus florida | 1956 | |
Washington | Western hemlock | Tsuga heterophylla | 1947 | |
West Virginia | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Wisconsin | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Wyoming | Plains cottonwood | Populus deltoides monilifera | 1947, amended 1961 |
See also※
- List of U.S. state, district, and territorial insignia
- National Grove of State Trees
- National Register of Champion Trees
Notes※
- ^ Louisiana also has the mayhaw as its state fruit tree.
- ^ The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture proposed the "ceiba as the official tree." It was not officially adopted. But it remains a popular symbol of the Commonwealth.
References※
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