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Flag of New Hampshire: 1931 Seal: Seal of New Hampshire: 1931 Emblem: New Hampshire State Emblem: 1945 [2] Motto: Live Free or Die: 1945 Nickname: The Granite State: Highway sign: Number of route within an outline of the Old Man of the Mountain: Quarter reverse: 2000
New Hampshire: Purple lilac (state flower) Syringa vulgaris: 1919 [41] Pink lady's slipper (state wildflower) Cypripedium acaule: 1991 [41] New Jersey: Violet: Viola sororia: 1971 [42] [43] New Mexico: Yucca flower: Yucca: 1927 [44] New York: Rose: Rosa: 1955 [45] North Carolina: Flowering dogwood (state flower) Cornus florida: 1941 [46 ...
This category contains the native flora of New Hampshire 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.
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
The original 1776 Constitution of New Hampshire did not provide for a chief executive. The office of President was created by the 1784 constitution, and renamed Governor in 1792. [ 2 ] Governors served one-year terms until an 1877 amendment increased this to two years. [ 3 ]
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Close-up of a Labrador tea flower, found in the alpine zone of northern New Hampshire Ledum latifolium, an earlier name for Rhododendron groenlandicum. Labrador tea is a common name for three closely related plant species in the genus Rhododendron as well as a herbal tea made from their leaves.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.