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New Jersey State Flower
Common Meadow Violet
(Viola sororia)
Adopted in 1913; 1971.
The state flower of New Jersey was originally designated as such by a resolution of the Legislature in 1913. Unfortunately the force of resolution ended with the start of the 1914 legislative session, leaving the violet with uncertain status for the next fifty years. In 1963 an attempt was made to have the Legislature "officially" designate the violet as the state flower, but the legislation apparently failed. In 1971, at the urging of New Jersey's garden clubs, legislation more specifically designating the Common Meadow Violet, Viola sororia, as the state flower was enacted.
The violet is also the state flower for Illinois, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
THE STATE FLOWER OF NEW JERSEY
Chapter 444, Laws of 1971
Approved 2-15-72
ASSEMBLY, No. 2180
Introduced February 16, 1971
By Assemblywoman MARGETTS, Assemblymen VREELAND and COBB
Referred to Committee on State Government
AN ACT designating the violet as the New Jersey State Flower.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the
State of New Jersey:
The violet (common meadow, V. sororia) is designated the New
Jersey State Flower.
This act shall take effect immediately.
- Family: Violet (Violaceae)
- Habitat: woods, meadows, waste areas
- Height: 3-8 inches
- Flower size: 3/4 to 1 inch wide
- Flower color: blue-purple, occasionally white or bicolor
- Flowering time: April to June
- Origin: native
Taxonomic Hierarchy
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| Kingdom |
Plantae -- Plants |
| Subkingdom |
Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants |
| Superdivision |
Spermatophyta -- Seed plants |
| Division |
Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants |
| Class |
Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons |
| Subclass |
Rosidae – |
| Order |
Violales |
| Family |
Violaceae -- Violet family |
| Genus |
Viola L |
| Species |
Viola sororia Willd. -- common blue violet P |
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