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Florida State Symbols Online

Florida Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

 

Florida State Symbols Online is a state resource directory containing descriptions and pictures of the state symbols, emblems, and mascots of the state, which can be quickly accessed. This resource guide represents many of Florida state facts such as Florida state symbols, the state flower, the state gemstone, the state insect, the state tree, the state bird, the state animal, the state flag that flies over Florida, and the capital, as well as many more symbols, emblems, and mascots. These types of state directories are designed to help children learn, and are often used by children in the public and private education system as well as homeschooled children.

 

 
Florida State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol

Name - Scientific

Adopted

Air Fair Central Florida Air Fair
No longer in operation.
1976
Animal Florida Panther (Felis concolor coryi) 1982
Band The St. Johns River City Band 1990
Beverage Orange Juice 1967
Bird Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1927
Butterfly Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) 1996
Citrus Archive The Florida Citrus Archives 2001
Day April 2- Apr 2, 1953
Festival Calle Ocho Open House 2000
Fiddle Contest Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center 1989
Freshwater Fish Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides floridanus) 1975
Flag State Flag  
Flower Orange Blossom  (Citrus sinensis) Nov 15, 1909
Fossil Coral  (Cnidaria anthozoa) 1979
Fruit Orange (Citrus sinensis) May 24, 2005
Gem Moonstone
 
1970
Sports Hall of Fame The Florida Sports Hall of Fame Lake City, Columbia County 1988
>Litter Control Symbol >Keep Florida Beautiful, Incorporated 1978
Marine Mammal Manatee (Trichechus manatus) 1978
Motto In God We Trust 1868
>Moving Image Center
and Archive
>The Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, Inc. 1989
Nicknames NA
Opera Program Florida State Opera Program 1983
Pageant Indian River, Brevard County 1979
Play "Cross and Sword,"
by Paul Green
 
1973
Railroad Museum The Orange Blossom Special Railroad Museum, West Palm Beach; The Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Inc., and Gold Coast Railroad, Inc.; The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Inc., Tampa. 1984
Renaissance Festival Italian Renaissance Festival, Vizcaya presented by Renaissance Historical Society of Florida, Inc. 1994
Reptile American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) 1987
Rodeo Silver Spurs Rodeo (Osceola County) 1994
Salt Water Fish Atlantic Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) 1975
Salt Water Mammal Porpoise (Tursiops truncates) 1975
Seal Great Seal 1868, 1995
Shell Horse Conch (Pleuroploca gigantea) 1969
Soil Myakka Fine Sand (hyperthermic Aeric Haplaquods)
 
1989
Song "Swanee River" (The Old Folks at Home)
By Stephen C. Foster
May 25 1935
Song - Old "Florida, My Florida"

House Concurrent Resolution No. 22 in 1935, S. P. Robineau of Miami successfully entered "The Swanee River" as the official state song, replacing "Florida, My Florida,"

1913
Sports Hall of Fame The Florida Sports Hall of Fame 1999
Stone Agatized Coral 1979
Transportation Museum
 
The Florida Museum of Transportation and History 1985
Tree Cabbage Palm (Sabal Palmetto Palm) 1953
Welcome Song "Florida"
by Lawrence Hurwit and Isreal Abrams
1985
Wild Flower  Coreopsis 1991
 
 

 

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