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Washington State Symbols Online

Washington Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

 

Washington 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 Washington state facts such as Washington 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 Washington, 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.

 

 
Washington State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol

Name - Scientific

Adopted
Arboretum Washington Park Arboretum 1995
Bird Willow Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) 1951
Dance Square Dance Apr 17, 1979
Day Arbor day NA
Fish Steelhead Trout (Salmo gairdnerii) to (Oncorhynchus mykiss) 1969
Flag State Flag 1923
Flower Coast Rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) 1892
Folk Song "Roll On Columbia, Roll On" 1987
Fossil Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) 1998
Fruit Apple 1989
Gem Petrified Wood Mar 12,
1975
Grass Bluebunch Wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum) May 12,
1989
Insect Green Darner Dragonfly (Anax junius Drury) 1997
Marine Mammal Orca (Orcinus orca) Jun 24,
2005
Motto Al-ki or Alki (bye and bye) NA
Nicknames NA NA
Seal Great Seal 1889
Ship President Washington Feb 19,
1983
Song "Washington, My Home" 1959
Tartan State Tartan
 		 1991
Tree Western Hemlock (Tsuga Heterophylla) 1946
 
 
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