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Flowers & Floral Emblems
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The term floral emblem, which refers to flowers specifically,
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Nevada Symbols
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Nevada State Flower
Sagebrush
(Artemisia tridentata or trifida)
Adopted on March 20, 1917.
Nevada's state flower is sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata. Adopted March 20, 1917, it has small yellow and white flowers in the spring grows abundantly in the deserts of the Western United States. A member of the wormwood family, sagebrush is a branching bush (1 to 12 feet high) and grows in regions where other kinds of vegetation cannot subsist. Known for its pleasant aroma, its gray-green twigs, and pale yellow flowers, sagebrush is an important winter food for sheep and cattle Native Americans used sagebrush leaves as medicine and sagebrush bark for weaving mats.
Sagebrush grows abundantly in the deserts of the Western United States. A member of the wormwood family, sagebrush is a branching bush (1 to 12 feet high) and grows in regions where other kinds of vegetation cannot subsist. Known for its pleasant aroma, its gray-green twigs, and pale yellow flowers, sagebrush is an important winter food for sheep and cattle.
- Leaf: Simple, alternate (but typically clustered at each node), persistent (but some leaves are drought deciduous). Small (1/2 to 2 inches long) and narrowly wedge-shaped with a 3-lobed apex; silvery-green and pubescent on both surfaces; strong scented; sessile.
- Flower: Monoecious. Very small, yellowish, and tubular; borne in small heads on long, upright spikes; some flowers perfect and some imperfect.
- Fruit: Very small achenes; 4 or 5-sided or ribbed
- Twig: Young twigs are slender, silvery-gray, and pubescent, becoming grayish-brown as they age.
- Bark: Grayish-brown, shreddy, and splitting lengthwise.
- Form: An upright, evergreen shrub commonly growing from several to 15 feet tall. Silvery-green and strongly scented with gray shreddy bark.
NRS 235.050 State flower. The shrub known as sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata or trifida) is hereby designated as the official state flower of the State of Nevada.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 107; A 1967, 702)
Taxonomic Hierarchy
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| Kingdom |
Plantae -- Plants |
| Subkingdom |
Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants |
| Superdivision |
Spermatophyta -- Seed plants |
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Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants |
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Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons |
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Asteridae – |
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Asterales – |
| Family |
Asteraceae – Aster family |
| Genus |
Artemisia L. – sagebrush |
| Species |
Artemisia tridentata Nutt. – big sagebrush |
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State Flowers
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Find images and a brief
history of
the flowers
representing, usually by legislative action, the
state
symbols of each of the fifty states. Many of the state flowers are actually trees --
some states have chosen the same species as state tree and as state flower.
flow·er (flour)
n.
1.
a. It is the reproductive structure of many seed-bearing plants, typically having
either specialized male or female organs or both male and female organs, like stamens and a
pistil, enclosed in an outer envelope of petals and sepals.
b. Such a structure having showy or colorful parts; a blossom.
2. A plant that is cultivated or cherished for its blossoms.
3. The condition or a time of having developed flowers: The violets were in full
flower.
4. Something, such as an decoration or a figure of speech that resembles a flower in
shape, fineness, or attractiveness.
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