This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory trees, including official trees of the following of the states, of the federal district, and of the territories.
State federal district or territory |
Common name | Scientific name | Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Longleaf pine | Pinus palustris | 1949 clarified 1997 | |
Alaska | Sitka spruce | Picea sitchensis | 1962 | |
American Samoa | None | |||
Arizona | Blue palo verde | Parkinsonia florida | 1954 | |
Arkansas | Loblolly pine | Pinus taeda | 1939 | |
California | Coast redwood | Sequoia sempervirens | 1937 | |
Giant sequoia | Sequoiadendron giganteum | |||
Colorado | Colorado blue spruce | Picea pungens | 1939 | |
Connecticut | White oak (See also: Charter Oak) |
Quercus alba | 1947 | |
Delaware | American holly | Ilex opaca | 1939 | |
District of Columbia | Scarlet oak | Quercus coccinea | 1960 | |
Florida | Sabal palm | Sabal palmetto | 1953 | |
Georgia | Southern live oak | Quercus virginiana | 1937 | |
Guam | Ifit (Pacific teak) | Intsia bijuga | 1969 | |
Hawaii | Candlenut tree (kukui) | Aleurites moluccanus | 1959 | |
Idaho | Western white pine | Pinus monticola | 1935 | |
Illinois | White oak | Quercus alba | 1973 | |
Indiana | Tulip tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | 1931 | |
Iowa | Oak (variety unspecified) | Quercus spp. | 1961 | |
Kansas | Eastern cottonwood | Populus deltoides | 1937 | |
Kentucky | Tulip-tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | ||
Louisiana | Bald cypress | Taxodium distichum | 1963 | |
Maine | Eastern white pine | Pinus strobus | 1945 | |
Maryland | White oak (See also: Wye Oak) |
Quercus alba | 1941 | |
Massachusetts | American elm | Ulmus americana | 1941 | |
Michigan | Eastern white pine | Pinus strobus | 1955 | |
Minnesota | Red pine (aka Norway pine) | Pinus resinosa | 1953 | |
Mississippi | Southern magnolia | Magnolia grandiflora | 1952 | |
Missouri | Flowering dogwood | Cornus florida | 1955 | |
Montana | Ponderosa pine | Pinus ponderosa | 1949 | |
Nebraska | Eastern cottonwood | Populus deltoides | 1972 | |
Nevada | Single-leaf pinyon | Pinus monophylla | 1959 | |
Great Basin bristlecone pine | Pinus longaeva | 1987 | ||
New Hampshire | American white birch | Betula papyrifera | 1947 | |
New Jersey | Northern red oak | Quercus rubra | 1950 | |
New Mexico | Piñon pine | Pinus edulis | 1949 | |
New York | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1956 | |
North Carolina | Pine | Pinus | 1963 | |
North Dakota | American elm | Ulmus americana | 1947 | |
Northern Mariana Islands | Flame tree | Delonix regia | 1979 | |
Ohio | Ohio buckeye | Aesculus glabra | 1953 | |
Oklahoma | Eastern redbud | Cercis canadensis | 1971 | |
Oregon | Douglas fir | Pseudotsuga menziesii | 1939 | |
Pennsylvania | Eastern hemlock | Tsuga canadensis | 1931 | |
Puerto Rico | Ceiba (unofficial) | Ceiba pentandra | ||
Rhode Island | Red maple | Acer rubrum | 1964 | |
South Carolina | Sabal palm | Sabal palmetto | 1939 | |
South Dakota | Black Hills spruce | Picea glauca var. densata |
1947 | |
Tennessee | Tulip-tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | 1947 | |
Texas | Pecan | Carya illinoinensis | 1919 | |
United States Virgin Islands | None | |||
Utah | Quaking aspen | Populus tremuloides | 2014 | |
Vermont | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Virginia | Flowering dogwood | Cornus florida | 1956 | |
Washington | Western hemlock | Tsuga heterophylla | 1947 | |
West Virginia | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Wisconsin | Sugar maple | Acer saccharum | 1949 | |
Wyoming | Plains cottonwood | Populus deltoides monilifera | 1947, amended 1961 |
See also
- List of U.S. state, district, and territorial insignia
- National Grove of State Trees
- National Register of Champion Trees
Notes
- Louisiana also has the mayhaw as its state fruit tree.
- The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture proposed the ceiba as the official tree. It was not officially adopted, but it remains a popular symbol of the Commonwealth.
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