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State	State tree	Binomial nomenclature Binomial nomenclature In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is called binominal nomenclature , binary nomenclature , or the binomial classification system....	Image	Year
Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....	Longleaf Pine Longleaf Pine The Longleaf Pine is a pine native to the southeast United States, found along the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeast Virginia extending into northern and central Florida....	Pinus palustris		1949 clarified 1997
Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....	Sitka Spruce Sitka Spruce The Sitka Spruce is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing to 50?70 m tall, exceptionally to 100 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 5 m, exceptionally to 6?7 m diameter....	Picea sitchensis
Arizona Arizona The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....	Palo verde Parkinsonia florida Parkinsonia florida is a species of Parkinsonia native to the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico . Its name means "green stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk in which the tree does photosynthesis....	Parkinsonia florida
Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....	Loblolly Pine Loblolly Pine Pinus taeda is one of several pines native to the Southeastern United States United States. The trees reach a height of 30-35 m with a diameter of 0.4-1.5 m ....	Pinus taeda
California California California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....	California redwoods Sequoia Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae . Common names include Coast Redwood and California Redwood ....	Sequoiadendron giganteum and Sequoia sempervirens
Colorado Colorado The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....	Colorado Blue Spruce Blue Spruce Picea pungens is a species of spruce native to western North America, from southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming, south through Utah and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico....	Picea pungens
Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....	White oak White oak Quercus alba, the White Oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas.... "See Also: Charter Charter Oak The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hill, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States....	Quercus alba
District of Columbia	Scarlet Oak Scarlet Oak The Scarlet Oak is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae section Quercus sect. Lobatae. The scarlet oak is often confused with the Pin Oak, the Red Oak, and occasionally the Black Oak....	Quercus coccinea
Delaware Delaware Delaware is a U.S. state located on the East Coast of the United States in the Mid-Atlantic States region of the United States. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, a British nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom Cape Henlopen was originally named....	American Holly American Holly Ilex opaca is a species of holly, native to the eastern United States, from coastal Massachusetts south to central Florida, and west to southeastern Missouri and eastern Texas....	Ilex opaca
Florida Florida Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....	Sabal Palmetto Sabal palmetto Sabal palmetto, also known as Cabbage Palm, Palmetto, Cabbage Palmetto,Palmetto Palm, and Sabal Palm, is one of 15 species of Sabal Arecaceae ....	Sabal palmetto
Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....	Live oak Southern live oak Quercus virginiana, also known as the Southern Live Oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen oak tree native to the Southeastern United States United States....	Quercus virginiana
Guam Guam Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....	Ipil	Intsia bijuga
Hawaii Hawaii File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....	Kukui nut tree Candlenut The Candlenut , is a flowering plant tree in the Euphorbia Family , Euphorbiaceae, also known as Candleberry, Indian walnut, Kemiri, Varnish tree or Kukui nut tree....	Aleurites moluccana
Idaho Idaho The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....	Western White Pine Western White Pine Western White Pine is a species of pine that occurs in the mountains of the western United States and Canada, specifically the Sierra Nevada , the Cascade Range, the Coast Range, and the northern Rocky Mountains....	Pinus monticola
Illinois Illinois The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....	White oak White oak Quercus alba, the White Oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas....	Quercus alba
Indiana Indiana The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....	Tulip-tree Liriodendron tulipifera Liriodendron tulipifera, commonly known as the American tulip tree, tulip poplar or yellow poplar, is the Western Hemisphere representative of the two-species Liriodendron genus and the tallest eastern hardwood....	Liriodendron tulipifera
Iowa Iowa The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....	Bur Oak Bur oak The Bur Oak, , sometimes spelled Burr Oak, is a species of oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus Quercus sect. Quercus, native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada....	Quercus macrocarpa
Kansas Kansas The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....	Cottonwood Eastern Cottonwood The Eastern Cottonwood is a cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico....	Populus deltoides
Kentucky Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....	Tulip Poplar Liriodendron Liriodendron is a genus of two species of tree in the Magnoliaceae family, known under the common name Tulip tree. Liriodendron tulipifera is native to eastern North America, while Liriodendron chinense is native to China and Vietnam....	Liriodendron tulipifera
Louisiana Louisiana The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....	Bald cypress Taxodium distichum Taxodium distichum is a species of Pinophyta native to the southeastern United States....	Taxodium distichum
Maine Maine The State of Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast....	Eastern White Pine Eastern White Pine is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the extreme south of Georgia ....	Pinus strobus
Maryland Maryland Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....	White oak White oak Quercus alba, the White Oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas....   (see also: Wye Oak Wye Oak The Wye Oak was the honorary state tree of Maryland, and the largest white oak tree in the United States. Located in the town of Wye Mills, in Talbot County, Maryland, the Wye Oak was believed to be over 460 years old at the time of its destruction during a severe thunderstorm on June 6, 2002, and measured 31 feet 10 inches in circumferenc... )	Quercus alba
Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....	American Elm American Elm Ulmus americana, generally known as the American Elm or, less commonly, as the White Elm or Water Elm, is a species native to eastern North America, occurring from Nova Scotia west as far as British Columbia, from northern Alberta at the top of its range, south to Florida and central Texas....	Ulmus americana
Michigan Michigan Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....	Eastern White Pine Eastern White Pine is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the extreme south of Georgia ....	Pinus strobus
Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....	Red Pine Red Pine The Red Pine is a pine native to northeastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to southeast Manitoba, and south to northern Illinois and Pennsylvania, with a small outlying population in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia....	Pinus resinosa
Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....	Southern Magnolia Southern magnolia Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as the Southern magnolia or bull bay, is a magnolia native to the Southeastern United States United States, from coastal Virginia south to central Florida, and west to East Texas....	Magnolia Grandiflora
Missouri Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....	Flowering dogwood Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas and also in Illinois, with a disjunct population in eastern Mexico in Nuevo Le?n and Veracruz....	Cornus florida
Montana Montana Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....	Ponderosa Pine Ponderosa Pine Ponderosa Pine , sometimes called Bull Pine or Western Yellow Pine, is a widespread and variable pine native to western North America....	Pinus ponderosa
Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....	Cottonwood Eastern Cottonwood The Eastern Cottonwood is a cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico....	Populus deltoides
Nevada Nevada Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....	Single-leaf Pinyon Single-leaf Pinyon The Single-leaf Pinyon is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and southern California and northern Baja California....	Pinus monophylla
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....	American White Birch Paper Birch Betula papyrifera is a species of birch native to northern North America....	Betula papyrifera
New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....	Northern red oak Northern Red Oak The Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak, Quercus rubra , is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group . It is a native of North America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada....	Quercus rubra
New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....	Pinyon Colorado Pinyon The Colorado Pinyon or Two-needle Pinyon is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Flora and is native to the United States....	Pinus edulis
New York New York The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....	Sugar Maple Sugar Maple Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas....	Acer saccharum
North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....	Pine Pine Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....	Pinus		1963
North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006....	American Elm American Elm Ulmus americana, generally known as the American Elm or, less commonly, as the White Elm or Water Elm, is a species native to eastern North America, occurring from Nova Scotia west as far as British Columbia, from northern Alberta at the top of its range, south to Florida and central Texas....	Ulmus americana
Northern Marianas	Flame tree Royal Poinciana Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant from the Fabaceae family, noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers. Often grown as an ornamental tree and given the name Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant, it is also known as Krishnachura, Gulmohar, Peacock Flower, Flame of the Forest, Malinche, and Tabachine,...	Delonix regia
Ohio Ohio Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....	Ohio Buckeye Ohio Buckeye The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. It derives its unflattering common name from the disagreeable odor generated from the flowers, crushed leaves, broken twigs, or bruised bark....	Aesculus glabra
Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....	Eastern Redbud Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis Carolus Linnaeus is a large shrub or small tree native to Eastern United States North America from southern Ontario, Canada south to northern Florida, United States....	Cercis canadensis
Oregon Oregon Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....	Douglas-fir Coast Douglas-fir The Coast Douglas-fir , a Variety of Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the coastal regions of western North America, from west-central British Columbia, Canada southward to central California, United States....	Pseudotsuga menziesii
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....	Eastern Hemlock Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis, also known as Eastern or Canadian Hemlock, and in the French language in Canada of Canada as Pruche du Canada, is a Pinophyta tree native to eastern North America....	Tsuga canadensis
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....	Silk-cotton tree Kapok Kapok is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae , native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and to tropical west Africa....	Ceiba pentandra
Rhode Island Rhode Island Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....	Red maple Red Maple Acer rubrum , is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of Eastern United States North America. It ranges from the Lake of the Woods on the border between Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland and Labrador, south to near Miami, Florida, Florida, and southwest to east Texas....	Acer rubrum
South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....	Cabbage Palmetto	Sabal palmetto		1939
South Dakota South Dakota South Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America. It is named after the Lakota people and Sioux Sioux Native Americans in the United States tribes....	Black Hills Spruce White Spruce Picea glauca is a species of spruce native to the north of North America, from central Alaska east to Newfoundland , and south to northern Montana, Michigan and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming....	Picea glauca var. densata		1947
Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....	Tulip-tree Liriodendron Liriodendron is a genus of two species of tree in the Magnoliaceae family, known under the common name Tulip tree. Liriodendron tulipifera is native to eastern North America, while Liriodendron chinense is native to China and Vietnam....	Liriodendron tulipifera
Texas Texas Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....	Pecan Pecan The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia , Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas ; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracr...	Carya illinoinensis		1919
Utah Utah The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....	Blue Spruce Blue Spruce Picea pungens is a species of spruce native to western North America, from southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming, south through Utah and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico....	Picea pungens		1933
Vermont Vermont Vermont is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area....	Sugar Maple Sugar Maple Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas....	Acer saccharum
Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....	Flowering dogwood Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas and also in Illinois, with a disjunct population in eastern Mexico in Nuevo Le?n and Veracruz....	Cornus florida
Washington Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....	Western Hemlock Western Hemlock Tsuga heterophylla is a species of Tsuga native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California, California....	Tsuga heterophylla
West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....	Sugar Maple Sugar Maple Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas....	Acer saccharum
Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....	Sugar Maple Sugar Maple Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas....	Acer saccharum
Wyoming Wyoming The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....	Plains cottonwood Eastern Cottonwood The Eastern Cottonwood is a cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico....	Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera

See also

• Lists of U.S. state insignia
  Lists of U.S. state insignia
  
  These are lists of U.S. state insignia as designated by tradition or the respective State legislature s:List of U.S. state amphibians:List of U.S....
  
• National Grove of State Trees
  National Grove of State Trees
  
  The National Grove of State Trees is an attraction at the United States National Arboretum. The grove s are planted on 30 acres of rolling terrain celebrate the diversity and importance of trees to all 50 states and the District of Columbia....
  
• National Register of Big Trees
  National Register of Big Trees
  
  The National Register of Big Trees is a list of the largest living specimens of each tree variety found in the continental United States. A tree on this list is often called a National Champion Tree....