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Introduction You are viewing the "State Trees" section from the book title "American Woods" by Shelley E. Schoonover. The table below is a representation of our states official and or adopted trees from the publish date of 1951. You may notice that the state of Alaska is not represented in the table below, since statehood was approved by Congress on July 7, 1958. Alaska was officially proclaimed a state on January 3, 1959. Also Hawaii is not included in the states list below, statehood was granted on August 21, 1959, 8 years after the publishing of American Woods. Legend and Definitions "Spp." is the abbreviation for "species." It means that the author is referring to all species in that given genus. Often it is also used when the author doesn't know the specific species but knows that it is in a certain genus; i.e., there are many plants in the genus Salvia, and they can all be lumped together in Salvia spp. (a) Officially designated by legislative action. (b) Selected by popular vote of the people or unofficially recognized. (c) Prominent tree growing within the State. .table_component { overflow: auto; width: 100%; } .table_component table { border: 1px solid #dededf; height: 100%; width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 1px; text-align: left; } .table_component caption { caption-side: top; text-align: left; } .table_component th { border: 1px solid #dededf; background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000000; padding: 5px; } .table_component td { border: 1px solid #dededf; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 5px; } State Common Name Botanical Name Year Adopted Alabama (c) Slash Pine Pinus cariaea Arizona (c) Honey Mesquite Prosopis fuliflora Arkansas (a) Pine Pinus spp. 1939 California (a) Coast Redwood ("California Redwood") Sequoia sempervirens 4/3/37 Colorado (a) Colorado Blue Spruce Picea pungens var. glauca 1939 Connecticut (a) White Oak Quercus alba 1947 Delaware (a) American Holly ("Holly") Ilex opaca 1939 District of Columbia (c) American Sycamore and Black Cherry Platanus occidentalis & Prunus serotina Florida (b) Cabbage Palmetto ("Cabbage Palm") Quercus virginiana 1931 Georgia (a) Live Oak Quercus virginiana 1937 Idaho (a) Western White Pine Pinus monticola 2/13/35 Illinois (a) Oak ("Native Oak") Quercus spp. 1937 Indiana (a) Yellow Poplar ("Tulip Tree") Liriodendron tulipifera 1931 Iowa (c) Black Walnut Juglans nigra Kansas (a) Cottonwood Populus spp. 1937 Kentucky (b) Yellow Popular ("Tulip Tree") Liriodendron tulipifera Louisiana (a) Southern Magnolia ("Evergreen") Englemann Magnolia grandiflora 2/8/38 Maine (b) Eastern White Pine ("Pine") Pinus strobus Maryland (a) White Oak Quercus alba 6/1/41 Bibliography Shelley E. Schoonover (American Woods) 1951 (Watling & Co. ) Santa Monica, CA
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Did you know that the Mighty Oak was chosen as our national tree in 2004? I didn't either! Here is a link to the designation: America’s National Tree WWW.ARBORDAY.ORG Oak - The People’s Choice for America’s National Tree Also, you can find the state trees at our wiki, the list is complete, but not all the trees are in our wiki yet, I am working on it though! Wiki | United States of America State Trees THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki
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