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Texas State Symbols Online

Texas Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

Texas 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 Texas state facts such as Texas 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 Texas, 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 home schooled children.

 

Texas State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol Name - Scientific Date Adopted
Air Force Commemorative Air Force
formerly
Confederate Air Force
2001
1989
Artist Artist Listing June 3, 1997
Artist Caricature Kid Cardona Apr15, 1997
Bird Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1927
Bluebonnet City Ennis Jun 18, 1997
Bluebonnet Festival The Chappell Hill Bluebonnet Festival Jun 18, 1997
Bluebonnet Trail Ennis Jun 18, 1997
Bread Pan De Campo (Cowboy Bread) 2005
Cooking Implement Cast Iron Dutch Oven 2005
Dinosaur Sauropod Dinosaur (Brachiosaur sauropod, Pleurocoelus) Jun 3, 1997
Dish Chili 1977
Dog Breed Blue Lacy Jun 18, 2005
Fibre and Fabric Cotton Jun 18, 1997
Fish Guadelupe Bass (Micropterus treculi) May 22, 1989
Flag State Flag Jan 25, 1839
Flower Bluebonnet(Lupinus texensis) and any other variety of bluebonnet
Bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus)
Mar 8, 1971, Mar 7, 1901
Flower Song "Bluebonnets" Mar 21, 1933
Flying Mammal Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) May 25, 1995
Folk Dance Square Dance 1991
Fruit Texas Red Grapefruit 1993
Gemstone Texas Blue Topaz Mar 26, 1969
Gemstone Cut Lonestar Cut 1977
Grass Sideoats gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula) Apl 12, 1971
Health Nut Pecan Jun 16, 2001
Insect Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) June 6, 1995
Large Mammal Longhorn (Bos bos) May 17, 1969
Motto Friendship 1930
Musician Vacant
Sep 1, 2001
Musical Instrument Guitar Jun 18, 1997
Native Pepper Chiltepin (Capsicum annuum var. aviculare) Jun 18, 1995
Native Shrub Texas Purple Sage 2005
Nicknames Lone Star State NA
Pastries Sopaipilla and Strudel Jan 31, 2005
Pepper Jalapeno (Capsicum annum) May 10, 1995
Plant Prickly Pear Cactus (genus Opuntia) May 25, 1995
Plays (1) "The Lone Star" presented in Galveston Island State Park

(2)"Texas" presented in the Palo Duro Canyon State Park

(3)" Beyond the Sundown" presented at the Texas-Coushatta Indian Reservation


(4)" Fandangle" presented in Shackelford County

1979
Pledge to Flag Pledge to Flag 1933
Poet Laureate James Hoggard, Wichita Falls;Term 2000 and 2001

Walt McDonald, Lubbock ;

Term: 2001 and 2002

1933 Amended: Sep 1, 2001
Reptile Texas Horned Lizard May 28, 1993
Seal Great Seal Jun 1992
Shell Lightning Whelk Apr 22, 1987
Ship USS Texas Jun 16, 1995
Shrub Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) Jun 18, 1997
Small Mammal Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) Jun 16, 1995
Snack Tortilla Chips and Salsa 2003
Song "Texas, Our Texas"
Words by Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright
Music by William J. Marsh
1929
Sport Rodeo Jun 18, 1997
Stone Petrified Palmwood, (Palmoxylon sp.) Mar 26, 1969
Symbolic Capitals Symbolic Capitals (Various )
Tall Ship Elissa Jun 18, 2005
Tartan Texas Bluebonnet Tartan May 25, 1989
Tejano Music Hall of Fame The Tejano Music Hall of Fame Museum, Alice Sep 1, 2001
Three-dimensional media Artist

(See Artist)

Mr. Edd Hayes Nov 1, 1997 to Oct 31, 1998;
June 3, 1997
Tree Pecan 1919
Two-dimensional media Artist

(See Artist)

Carl Rice Embrey
Nov 1, 1997 to Oct 31, 1998;

June 3, 1997

Vegetable Sweet Onion (Allium genus) May 7, 1997
Vehicle Chuckwagon 2005

 

State Symbols
State Map: Symbols
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.
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