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Flower: Hawthorn (also known as "red haw" or "wild haw") [1] Crataegus punctata: 1923 [11] Football team: Kansas City Chiefs 2019 [12] Fossil: Crinoid Delocrinus missouriensis: 1989 [1] [13] Fruit tree: Pawpaw tree Asimina triloba: 2019 [9] Game bird: Bobwhite Quail Colinus virginianus [14] 2007 [1] Grape: Norton Vitis aestivalis: 2003 [1] [15 ...
The plant is a bush or small tree to about 7 meters in height and very thorny, particularly on the trunk. The flower has three to five styles and approximately 20 stamens, and the fruit is a pome-type polypyrenous drupe which contains three to five pits. Anther colour varies from deep purple through red to pink to white, and the mature fruit ...
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
Some of the first frost flowers of the fall season have emerged in Missouri, state wildlife officials said.. The delicate and short-lived flowers were spotted at Chesapeake Fish Hatchery, near ...
(state wild flower) Trillium grandiflorum: 1987 [51] Oklahoma: Oklahoma rose (state flower) Rosa: 2004 [52] Indian blanket (state wildflower) Gaillardia pulchella: 1986 [52] Mistletoe (state floral emblem) Phoradendron leucarpum: 1893 [52] Oregon: Oregon grape: Berberis aquifolium: 1899 [53] Pennsylvania: Mountain laurel (state flower) Kalmia ...
In the Victorian era, the hawthorn represented hope in the language of flowers. [50] The hawthorn – species unspecified [19] – is the state flower of Missouri. The legislation designating it as such was introduced by Sarah Lucille Turner, one of the first two women to serve in the Missouri House of Representatives. [51]
Cornus florida is the state tree and flower of Virginia, [30] the state tree of Missouri, and state flower of North Carolina. [31] [26] References External links ...
Geobotanically, Missouri belongs to the North American Atlantic region, and spans all three floristic provinces that make up the region: the state transitions from the deciduous forest of the Appalachian province to the grasslands of the North American Prairies province in the west and northwest, and the northward extension of the Mississippi embayment places the bootheel in the Atlantic and ...