Poll: State flowers, name yours and give a description...let's name all of them in 50

[DebbieSG]

What is your state (for the United States fans) flower?

(reminder: there are fifty states in the US, 48 on the continent, not counting Alaska)

If you want, you can also answer the poll, "What color is your state flower?"

Answer below, and you can tell anything you like about it.

I'll start:

CALIFORNIA-- the Poppy (small and comes in bunches on the wild hillsides, especially around Oakland and Berkeley here near San Francisco, and it has a small dark middle, if that makes sense?)

 

[Schmeg]

RHODE ISLAND: Violet. It's, uhhh...violet. And small. Like Rhode Island.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

tennessee: apparently our state flower is the iris. for specific colours, the purple iris is the technical state flower.

 

[samralf]

Ohio---the red carnation

 

[deep]

Re: Poll: State flowers, name yours and give a description...let's name all of them in 50

CALIFORNIA-- the Poppy (small and comes in bunches on the wild hillsides, especially around Oakland and Berkeley here near San Francisco, and it has a small dark middle, if that makes sense?)

grows very well in Afghanistan, also.

 

[pax]

Pennsylvania: mountain laurel (I think it's actually a threatened plant species). It's...pink, I believe.

 

[Bono's shades]

Iowa: wild rose. It's pink and really beautiful. I'm not sure I've ever seen any actually growing in roadside ditches or in the woods, but I've seen pictures.

 

[u2er]

Texas - bluebonnet.. really tall beautiful flowers, some are purple and some are blue. mostly grow in open fields and hillsides

 

[Giant Lemon]

Illinois - the blue violet (sounds like an oxymoron to me!)

 

[senrab]

New York - rose

 

[beegee]

nevada: sagebrush...not a flower at all. yucky stuff. smells like cat pee.

 

[deep]

nevada: sagebrush...not a flower at all. yucky stuff. smells like cat pee.

true, but surpisingly taste more like rodent pee.

 

[Calluna]

I like sagebrush. You can make smudge sticks out of it.

Washington's state flower is the Coast Rhododendron.

 

[notiti]

Mad ups to Washington. I have a Coast Rhododendron in my yard.

 

[AdamsMango]

Ohio---the red carnation

OHIO!! Ohio blows-but I just noticed you were from Dayton..that is like 30 min from me! Cool

 

[zonelistener]

Where are the Minnesotans here?

Anyway - The Lady Slipper and it is pink and pretty and stuff.

 

[ghetofabu]

STATE: LOUISIANA

FLOWER: MAGNOLIA

 

[HelloAngel]

FLORIDA STATE FLOWER - ORANGE BLOSSOM

The orange blossom was designated State Flower by Concurrent Resolution Nov. 15, 1909 Legislature. It is one of the most fragrant flowers in Florida. Millions of these white flowers perfume the atmosphere throughout central and south Florida during orange blossom time.

 

[cass]

NSW- Australia
Waratah - Hardy medium shrub, grows at higher altitudes in rocky soil. Beautiful deep red, waxy flowers form at the end of each branch. The flower is like a symetrical cone made up of rows of waxy fingers. They keep well as cut flowers. They are superb.
If I had a bunch of them now I'd give them to Adam Clayton.....and then faint

 

[tiny dancer]

Pennsylvania: mountain laurel (I think it's actually a threatened plant species). It's...pink, I believe.

Right you are paxetaurora. It's a light pink andf it is illegal to pick them.

 

[Lemon Meringue]

As Zony said, the State flower for Minnesota is the Showy Lady Slipper:

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

FLORIDA STATE FLOWER - ORANGE BLOSSOM

i used to live just a couple miles away from a street called orange blossom trail.

this was right outside of orlando

 

[bonosloveslave]

Michigan
State Flower: Apple Blossom
In 1897 Michigan legislators, feeling that "a refined sentiment" called for the naming of a state flower, designated the apple blossom. Joint Resolution 10 of that year noted "one of the most fragrant and beautiful flowered species of apple, the pyrus coronaria, is native to our state." Legislators also proudly declared that "Michigan apples have gained a worldwide reputation." A century later, Michigan ranks second in the nation in apple production.