Montana: Bitterroot

The Bitterroot flowers are borne on short stems during the month of March. Bitterroot flowers are single on each stem, the stalk starting and jointed just above the bracts. The stalk readily separates at maturity, reaching a height of 1-3 cms. Sepals of the Bitterroot are mostly 6-9, oval and 10-25 mm long. Petals of the Bitterrootare are about 15, rather narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 18-35 mm long, from deep to light pinkish-rose or sometimes nearly pure white. The stamens are 30-50, and the style branches are 4-8 in number.


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Missouri: Hawthorn

Hawthorn can grow in the form of small tree or thorny shrub. It can reach 20 to 40 feet in height. Hawthorn has knotty, twisted trunk covered with grey or reddish brown, scaly bark. Twigs are slender and equipped with 1 to 5 inches long thorns. Hawthorn can survive up to 400 years in the wild.

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Mississippi: Magnolia

Southern magnolias are known partly for their large size, typically growing to a height of up to 80 feet with a spread of up to 40 feet, but various cultivars give you choices. Throughout the spring and summer, the large flowers of the Southern magnolia tree open and release their strong, pleasant fragrance, reminiscent of lemons. 

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Minnesota: Pink and White Lady Slippers

Pink and White Lady's Slipper flowers are 1-2 (3), each subtended by a lanceolate green foliaceous bract 6-14 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. The white sepals include dorsal sepals that are ovate to obovate, and are 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide. The lateral sepals are united, ovate, and 3-5 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide.Pink and White Lady's Slipper's labellum is pouch-shaped, inflated, spherical (or nearly so), and 2.5-5.5 cm long. The labellum opens above with inrolled edges and is a white color suffused with deep rose to magenta, the veins often being white; rarely the whole being white or rose.

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Michigan: Apple Blossom

The apple blossom is a typical angiosperm flower, with petals surrounding multiple pollen-producing structures called stamens, the male reproductive organs of the flower, which are crowned with sticky pollen-collecting stigma. Delicately colored blossoms are among the most distinctive features of the apple tree, and their springtime beauty has made them a treasured emblem of apple-producing areas.


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Maryland: Black-Eyed Susan

Black-eyed Susan flowers are among the most cherished state flowers. They have colorful yellow-gold single petals that are often two to four inches across, and encircling their large black centers. The ligules of the Black-eyed Susan are about 1.5 inch long. The involucral bracts are sometimes very elongated, and have long, stiff hairs. Black-eyed Susans flowers are also called as Gloriosa Daisy, owing to their yellow, orange, and gold colors.

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Maine: White Pine Cone and Tassel

Botanically, these are not considered flowers since gymnosperms do not have true flowers. The male strobili are oval, 8 to 10 mm long and occur mostly on the basal part of new shoots and mostly on older lateral branches in the lower crown. Trees may start to bear female flowers when 5 to 10 years old.

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Louisiana: Mangolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. Magnolia flowers have a pleasant fragrance (musty smells to sweet tropical fruit smells) and appear throughout the spring and summer. Magnolia is a characteristically showy, fragrant flower that is white, pink, purple, green, or yellow. The Magnolia flowers are followed by showy red or pink fruits displaying red, orange, or pink seeds, each of which hangs from the fruit by a thread-like strand.


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Kentucky: Goldenrod

 Goldenrod is yellow, but sometimes has cream-colored or white rays. Goldenrod has few, about 10-17 tiny rays. The bracts are firm, green, and blunt. Groups of Goldenrod flowers are often clustered on the top edge of the branches near or at the top of the plant. The Goldenrod flower heads bloom in a broad pyramidal cluster, elongated or flattish clusters. Goldenrod is an erect, coarse-looking perennial herb that is usually about two or three feet tall.


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Kansas: Sunflower

Sunflower is notable for turning to face the Sun, a behavior known as heliotropism. Sunflower seeds have lots of calcium and 11 other important minerals. They do have 50% fat, but it is mostly polyunsaturated linoleic acid. The outer flowers on the Sunflower are the ray florets and can be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors.

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Iowa: Wild Prairie Rose

Wild Prairie Rose flowers are about 2 inches broad and fragrant. The five petals on the Wild Prairie Rose vary from pink to white or rarely deep rose light and the flowers usually bloom in groups at ends of branches. The leaves on the Wild Prairie Rose plant are compound with 7 to 11 oval leaflets seldom over 1 inch 2.5 cm long, sharply serrated or toothed, smooth on both sides.


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Indiana: Peony

Peonies are long-lived plants that produce white, pink, red, yellow and coral flowers. A peony's fragrance varies, but most peonies have a sweet, clean scent. Peony grows either as herbaceous plant or as semi-woody shrub (tree-like plant). It can reach 1.6 to 9.8 feet in height, depending on the species. Peony has compound leaves that consist of 2 to 9 leaflets. The peony leaves are green colored and alternately arranged on the stem.


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Illinois: Violet

Violets are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and are also distributed in Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes in South America. Violets typically have heart-shaped leaves, and asymmetrical flowers. Strictly, Sweet violets, Bedding Violas and Pansies are all classified as "violas". African violets have fleshy downy leaves and produce throughout the summer, five-petaled flowers, usually with a distinct eye while true violets have large to small heart shaped leaves, sometimes smooth, sometimes with varying degrees of hairiness.

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Idaho: Syringa

Mock orange flowers are white, 2-3 cm wide and smell like orange blossoms. Each Mock orange flower has four sepals, four petals, 1-4 cm in diameter. The plant is poisonous to cats. Mock orange flowers are commonly (but not in all species) sweetly scented.

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Hawaii: Hawaiian Hibiscus

Hawaiian hibiscus shrubs bear blooms almost every day, but the blossoms last only for a day even when on the bush. Hawaiian hibiscus shrub grows to a height of 3 to 15 feet tall with a diameter of 8 to 15 feet. Young Hawaiian hibiscus plants have smooth tan trunks; the trunks of older plants have a wrinkled appearance. The leaves on Hawaiian hibiscus have toothed edges, 3, 5, or 7 lobes, and are up to 6 inches long and equally wide.

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Georgia: Azalea

Azaleas are either deciduous or evergreen, depending on the species, and generally like to grow under the shade of trees. Azaleas grow up to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) tall, although some only grow to half that height. Azalea nectar and leaves are highly poisonous, and in the past, have been seen as a death threat if the flowers have been given in a black vase.

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Florida: Orange Blossom

The Orange blossoms bloom in clusters of 1-6 during in spring and result in oranges the following autumn or winter. Orange blossoms are perfect, with 5 petals and sepals. Orange blossom are very fragrant.

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Delaware: Peach Blossom

The Peach blossom is 2.5-3 cm in diameter, with five petals. Peach blossoms are light pink to carmine, to purplish in color. Peach trees grow 15-25 feet high.

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Connecticut: Mountain Laurel

The Pennsylvania state flower is an evergreen shrub that’s related to the rhododendron. It grows in openings of spruce-fir forests and generally reaches between 6-10 feet tall. Mountain Laurel flowers are star-shaped, ranging in color from red to pink to white, and occurring in clusters. And usually are up to 2.5cm wide.

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Colorado: Rocky Mountain columbine

There are 70 species of columbines in the world and about 1/3 are native to North America. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. It is said that the Native Americans of this region used the Columbine as a herbal remedy. They would treat ailments from fever to heart tension and even poison ivy pain with Columbine-infused tea.

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California: California Poppy

Golden Poppy blossoms are 2-3 inch cups of gold, bronze, scarlet, terra cotta, rose or white. The Golden Poppy flowers are 1-2 inches across, with four wide fan-shaped petals, and many stamens. Golden Poppy seed is also ground for flour.

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Arkansas: Apple blossom

Apple blossoms bloom on small trees with a short trunk and several stout branches forming broad, open crown. The blossoms are usually 4 cm wide.

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Arizona: Saguaro cactus blossom

The flower usually blooms near the tops and the arms of the Saguaro cactus. They are white in color and about 3 inches in diameter. Saguaro flowers bloom for less than 24 hours. They open at night and remain open through the next day. They only have that very short time to attract an animal to be pollinated.

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Alaska: Forget Me Not

Forget me nots are very fragrant flowers that belong to Boraginaceae family. The flower is about 2 cm long can grow in altitudes up to 700-2800 m. Their normal climate is rocky mountainous areas, woods, humid fields. Forget-me-nots normally come in pink, white, and blue. The fragrant Forget me not flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by bees, flies and Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies).

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Alabama: Camellia

The camellia is a shrub that can grow to be 6 to 12 feet when it is fully mature. The shrub is native to China, Japan, and other parts of Asia. The flowers that bloom are usually white, red, pink or variegated, depending on the variety. They usually bloom around the springtime.

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