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North Carolina State Symbols Online

North Carolina Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

 

North Carolina 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 North Carolina state facts such as North Carolina 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 North Carolina, 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.

 

 
North Carolina State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol

Name - Scientific

Adopted
Beverage Milk 1987
Bird Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Mar 4,
1943
Blue Berry Blueberry 2001
Carnivorous Plant Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) 2005
Colors Red and Blue 1945
Dog Plott Hound (Canis familiaris) Aug 12, 1989
Flag State Flag Mar 9, 1885
Flower Dogwood 1941
Folk Dance Clogging 2005
Fruit Scuppernong Grape (Genus Vitis) 2001
Historical Boat Shad Boat 1987
Insect Honeybee 1973
International Festival Folkmoot USA 2003
Language English 1987
Mammal Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 1969
Military Academy Oak Ridge Military Academy, Oak Ridge 1991
Motto Esse quam videri (To be, rather than to seem)
 		 1893
Nicknames NA
Northeastern Watermelon Festival Hertford County Watermelon Festival  1993
Popular Dance Shagging 2005
Precious Stone Emerald 1973
Red Berry Strawberry 2001
Reptile and Emblem Eastern Box Turtle  (Terrapene carolina) 1979
Rock Granite 1979
Salt Water Fish Channel Bass (Red Drum) (Sciaenops ocellatus) 1971
Seal Great Seal 1893
Shell Scotch Bonnet (pronounced bonay) (Phalium granulatum) 1965
Song "The Old North State" 1947
Southeastern Watermelon Festival Fair Bluff Watermelon Festival, Columbus County
Tartan Carolina tartan 1991
Toast "A Toast" 1957
Tree Pine (Pinaceae Pinus palustris) 1963
Vegetables Sweet Potato 1995
Wildflower Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii) 2003

 

  
 
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State Resource Guide

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