Florida Symbols

Air Fair, Animal, Band, Beverage, Bird, Butterfly, Citrus Archive, Day, Festival, Fiddle Contest, Freshwater Fish, Flag, Flower, Fossil, Fruit, Gem, Sports Hall of Fame, Litter Control Symbol, Marine Mammal, Motto, Moving Image Center and Archive, Nicknames, Opera Program, Pageant, Play,  Railroad Museum, Renaissance Festival, Reptile, Rodeo, Salt Water Fish, Salt Water Mammal, Seal, Shell, Soil, Song, Song - Old, Sports Hall of Fame, Stone, Transportation Museum, Tree, Welcome Song, Wild Flower

State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.

symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun

Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.