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New Mexico State Symbols Online

New Mexico Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

 

New Mexico 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 New Mexico state facts such as New Mexico 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 New Mexico, 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.

 

 

New Mexico State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol

Name - Scientific

Adopted
Aircraft Hot Air Balloon 2005
Amphibian New Mexico Spadefoot Toad (Spea multiplicata) 2003
Animal Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Feb 8, 1963
Ballad "Land of Enchantment" 1989
Balloon Museum Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum 1999
Bilingual Song "New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico" 1995
Bird Chaparral Bird (Roadrunner) Mar 16, 1949
Butterfly Sandia Hairstreak 2003
Cookie Bizcochito 1989
Colors Red and Yellow of Old Spain 1925
Fish Rio Grande Cuttthroat Trout  (Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis) 1955
Flag State Flag 1925
Flower Yucca Flower Mar 14,
1927
Fossil Coelophysis Dinosaur (Coelophysis bauri ) Mar 17,
1981
Gem Turquoise Mar 23,
1967
Grass Blue Grama Grass (Bouteloua gracillis) 1973
Insect Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa) 1989
Motto Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) NA
Nicknames Land of Enchantment 1999
Poem "A Nuevo Mexico" 1991
Question Red or Green? 1999
Reptile New Mexico Whiptail Lizard (Cnemidophorus neomexicanus) 2003
Seal Great Seal 1913
Slogan, Business,
Commerce, and Industry		 "Everybody is somebody in New Mexico" Apr 3, 1975
Song "O' Fair New Mexico" 1917
Spanish Language Song "Asi Es Nuevo Mejico" 1971
Symbol Zia (see Flag) 1925
Tree Nut Pine or Pinon Tree (Pinus edulis) Mar 16,
1949
Vegetables Chile & Frijol (Pinto bean) 1965
 
 
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