Please Post A Pic Of YOUR State Flower

[matcom]

Massachusetts: Trailing-Arbutus (also known as the Mayflower)

[Superfly]

1. Virginia - American Dogwood ***Achoo!***

[Kathleen04]

2. California Golden Poppy

[freetobegay]

3. Florida

Orange blossom.

[Amaya]

4. Mountain laurel

is the state flower of Connecticut.



Purrty... huh?

[Maestro]

11. I love Mountain Laurel

We actually have it in parts of Texas.

[SarahB]

23. Here's another one

[ironflange]

25. I didn't know they had mountains in Connecticut!

:silly:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. There sure are - this isn't the biggest but it's my favorite

Sleeping Giant

[ironflange]

38. Aw, that's not a mountain.

Now this, this is a mountain:



Yours sure does look like a sleeping giant, tho.

[SarahB]

35. Connecticut has it all

An ocean, mountains, rivers, lakes, sunshine, and lovely women all rather quiet and within a 100 miles of just about anything else you could want.




(Also, plenty of rain and snow sometimes, but it's what you put up with.) :D

[murphymom]

5. Oregon grape

The legislature designated the Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) as the Oregon state flower by resolution in 1899. A low growing plant, the Oregon Grape is native to much of the Pacific Coast and is found sparsely east of the Cascades. Its year-round foliage of pinnated, waxy green leaves resembles holly. The plant bears dainty yellow flowers in early summer and a dark blue berry that ripens late in the fall. The fruit can be used in cooking.

[RushIsRot]

6. Louisiana - Magnolia

[freetobegay]

7. Kentucky my second home

goldenrod.

[Malva Zebrina]

8. White pine cone and tassel

Maine's state flower

well, it doesn't exactly look like a flower, but we don't care

[ForrestGump]

9. California

[Maestro]

10. The Bluebonnet

Courtesy of my backyard and the state of Texas.

[Lars39]

12. The Iris

is TN's state flower:

[KamaAina]

13. Yellow hibiscus -- the one that's actually native to Hawai'i

Pua Aloalo
Hibiscus brackenridgei

The hibiscus, all colors and varieties, was the official Territorial Flower, adopted in the early 1920s. At statehood in 1959, the first state legislature adopted many of Hawaii's symbols as part of the Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS, state laws). It wasn't until 1988, however, that the yellow hibiscus which is native to the islands was selected to represent Hawaii. For this reason, you will see many older photos and postcards with the red hibiscus, or any other color for that matter, as the state flower. These weren't incorrect at the time. Click on the image below to print out a hibiscus that you can color any way you like!

http://www.50states.com/flower/hawaii.htm

[LynneSin]

14. Delaware is the Peach Blossom

http://www.50states.com/flower/delaware.htm

Oddly enough I didn't realize there were Peach trees in Delaware

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. I usually associate peaches with GA...

but the local orchards on the Delmarva peninsula always have sweeeeeeeeeet fruit!

[Mattforclark]

15. TX bluebonnet

Is the best one....

[Maestro]

16. Hey, hey are we in competition?

Mine are prettier. Just bow down to me now.

[KC]

17. North Carolina - American Dogwood

[Wapsie B]

18. Iowa

Wild Rose

[LynzM]

19. Indiana - Peony

[northofdenali]

20. The forget-me-not

Same colors as our state flag!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

21. rhododendron maximum - WV

[greendog]

22. Montana...bitterroot

[ironflange]

24. Alberta -- Wild Rose

http://www.picturethisgallery.com/Artists/Baer,%20Elsie/Alberta%20Wild%20Rose%20V.jpg

This is Wild Rose Country, it says so on our license plates!

Thanks for the topic, I found a local microbrewery I didn't know about while looking for this image -- Wild Rose Brewery. Gotta look for their beer now, seems they only sell it in pints. :beer: mmmmmmmm. . . pints

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. I love wild roses...

They're so fragrant!

Love micros too. :D

[ironflange]

29. They grow all over the damn place here

Except when I try to grow them in my yard. What the hell?

Check www.wildrosebrewery.com. They have some mighty interesting looking stuff. I wanna try that cloudy beer!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Maryland

Black-Eyed Susan

[DS1]

30. What are you, some sort of liberal hippie?

:grr:

[matcom]

32. a kick just for you man

peace bro :D

[Zomby Woof]

31. Saguaro Cactus Blossom

[gottaB]

34. Washington: Coast Rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum)

[bif]

36. Michigan-Apple Blossom

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

37. Illinois: Blue Violet

This lovely little flower grows everywhere:

[ornotna]

39. The Florida State Wildflower

Coreopsis