List of U.S. state and territory trees

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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.

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! State
federal district
or territory !! Common name !! Scientific name !!class="unsortable"| Image !! Year

Alabama

|| Longleaf pine || Pinus palustris || 200px || 1949
clarified 1997{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_tree.html |title=Official Alabama Tree |access-date=March 22, 2007 |date=November 6, 2003 |work=Alabama Emblems, Symbols and Honors |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives & History}}

Alaska

|| Sitka spruce || Picea sitchensis || 200px ||1962{{citation |title= Sec. 44.09.070. State tree |work= Alaska Statutes 2020 |publisher= The Alaska State Legislature |url= http://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#44.09.070 |access-date= February 5, 2022}}{{cite book | author = Muriel L. Dubois | date = 2003 | title = Alaska Facts and Symbols | publisher = Capstone | pages = 15– | isbn = 978-0-7368-2232-9 | oclc = 1014049464 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVaAsIyAxtIC&pg=PA15}}

American Samoa

|| None || || ||{{citation |title= Chapter 03 - Official Symbols |work= Code Annotated by Title and Chapter |publisher= American Samoa Bar Association |url= https://new.asbar.org/section/title-01-general-laws-and-customs/chapter-03-official-symbols/ |access-date= February 3, 2022}}

Arizona

|| Blue palo verde || Parkinsonia florida || 200px || 1954{{citation |title = 41-856. State tree |work= Arizona Revised Statutes |publisher= Arizona State Legislature |url= https://www.azleg.gov/search/oop/qfullhit.asp?CiWebHitsFile=/ars/41/00856.htm |access-date= February 3, 2022}}{{cite book | date = 2000 | title = Arizona Blue Book | publisher = Secretary of State | page = 55| oclc = 14981703 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SOckAQAAMAAJ&pg=55}}

Arkansas

|| Loblolly pine || Pinus taeda || 200px || 1939{{citation |title= Official state tree |last= Ware |first= David |date= March 8, 2018|work=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |publisher= Central Arkansas Library System |url= https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/official-state-tree-3139/ |accessdate= February 7, 2022}}

rowspan=2 | California

|| Coast redwood || Sequoia sempervirens || 200px || rowspan=2 | 1937{{citation |title = Title 1. General; Division 2. State seal, flag and emblems; Chapter 2 State Flag and emblems |work= Government Code – GOV |publisher= California Legislative Information |url= https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=422. |access-date= February 4, 2022}}{{citation |title= State Symbols |publisher= California State Library |url= https://library.ca.gov/california-history/state-symbols/ |access-date= February 4, 2022}}

| Giant sequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum200px
Colorado

|| Colorado blue spruce || Picea pungens || 200px ||1939{{cite web|url=https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/archives/state-tree|title=State Tree|publisher=Colorado State Archives|access-date=February 7, 2022}}

Connecticut

|| White oak
(See also: Charter Oak) || Quercus alba || 200px || 1947{{citation |title= Connecticut State Register and Manual |pages= 803, 823 |publisher= Secretary of the State |year=2018 |url= https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/RegisterManual/RM_Archive/CT-State-Register-and-Manual-2018.pdf?la=en |accessdate= October 5, 2021}}

Delaware

|| American holly || Ilex opaca || 200px ||1939{{citation |title= Title 29 State Government, General Provisions; Chapter 3. State Seal, Song and Symbols|work= The Delaware Code Online |publisher= Delaware General Assembly |url= https://delcode.delaware.gov/title29/c003/index.html#305. |access-date= February 4, 2022}}

District of Columbia

|| Scarlet oak || Quercus coccinea || 200px || 1960{{citation |title= DC symbols |publisher= Office of the Secretary (DC) |url= https://os.dc.gov/page/dc-symbols |access-date= February 5, 2022}}

Florida

|| Sabal palm || Sabal palmetto || 200px ||1953{{citation |title= 15.031 State tree |work= The 2021 Florida Statutes, Title IV, Chapter 15 |url= http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0000-0099/0015/Sections/0015.031.html |access-date= February 6, 2022}}

Georgia

|| Southern live oak || Quercus virginiana || 200px ||1937{{cite web|url=http://www.gatrees.gov/reforestation/species-descriptions/hardwoods/LiveOakDescription2010.pdf|title=Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) – Georgia's State Tree|publisher=Georgia Forestry Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215162133/http://www.gatrees.gov/reforestation/species-descriptions/hardwoods/LiveOakDescription2010.pdf|archive-date=December 15, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=August 16, 2023}}{{cite news|url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2019/03/12/roots-of-georgias-state-tree-the-southern-live-oak|title=Roots Of Georgia's State Tree: The Southern Live Oak|last1=Prescott|first1=Virginia|last2=Taylor|first2=La'Raven|publisher=Georgia Public Broadcasting|date=March 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805084030/https://www.gpb.org/news/2019/03/12/roots-of-georgias-state-tree-the-southern-live-oak|archive-date=August 5, 2020|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Guam

|| Ifit (Pacific teak) || Intsia bijuga || 180px || 1969{{citation |title=2019 Guam Statutes Title 1 - General Provisions Chapter 10 - Holidays, Festivities, Time, etc |pages= 16–17 |url= https://law.justia.com/codes/guam/2019/title-1/chapter-10/ |access-date= February 2, 2022}}

Hawaii

|| Candlenut tree (kukui) || Aleurites moluccanus || 200px ||1959{{citation |title= §5-8 State tree |work= Hawaii Revised Statutes |url= https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0005/HRS_0005-0008.htm |access-date= January 4, 2020}}

Idaho

|| Western white pine || Pinus monticola || 200px ||1935{{cite web|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/emblems/|title=State Emblems|publisher=Idaho Secretary of State|access-date=May 28, 2023}}

Illinois

|| White oak || Quercus alba || 200px ||1973{{Cite book |url=https://www.ilsos.gov/publications/illinois_bluebook/statesymbols.pdf |title=Illinois Blue Book |chapter=Official State Symbols |publisher=Illinois Secretary of State |year=2021–2022 |edition=59th |pages=423 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404000848/https://www.ilsos.gov/publications/illinois_bluebook/statesymbols.pdf |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |url-status=live}}

Indiana

|| Tulip tree || Liriodendron tulipifera || 200px || 1931Ind. Code §1-2-7-1 (1931)

Iowa

|| Oak (variety unspecified) || Quercus spp. || 200px ||1961{{citation |title= Iowa Official Register |chapter = Iowa Profile |publisher= Iowa General Assembly Legislative Services Agency |page=394 |date=2021–2022 |url= https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/RDBKI/916707.pdf |access-date= February 6, 2022}}

Kansas

|| Eastern cottonwood || Populus deltoides || 200px ||1937{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q_lOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WEwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5320%2C4181963 | title=Tidbits | work=Ludington Daily News | date=August 4, 2001 | access-date=October 15, 2015 | pages=33}}

Kentucky

|| Tulip-tree || Liriodendron tulipifera || 200px || http://www.lrc.ky.gov/krs/002%2D00/095.pdf KRS002.095

Louisiana

|| Bald cypress{{efn|Louisiana also has the mayhaw as its state fruit tree.{{Cite book |title=Louisiana Revised Statutes |publisher=Louisiana State Legislature |year=2014 |chapter=RS 49:160.1}}}} || Taxodium distichum || 200px || 1963{{Cite book |title=Louisiana Revised Statutes |publisher=Louisiana State Legislature |year=1963 |chapter=RS 49:160}}

Maine

|| Eastern white pine || Pinus strobus || 200px || 1945{{cite web|url=https://www.maine.gov/sos/kids/about/symbols/tree|title=State Tree - White Pine|publisher=Maine Secretary of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611194106/https://www.maine.gov/sos/kids/about/symbols/tree|archive-date=June 11, 2020|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Maryland

|| White oak
(See also: Wye Oak) || Quercus alba || 200px || 1941{{cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/symbols/html/tree.html|title=Maryland State Tree – White Oak|website=Maryland Manual On-Line|publisher=Maryland State Archives|access-date=May 28, 2023}}

Massachusetts

|| American elm || Ulmus americana || 200px || 1941{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm|title=Concise Facts|publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=May 30, 2023}}

Michigan

|| Eastern white pine || Pinus strobus || 200px || 1955{{cite web|url=https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/GettingToKnowMichigan.html|title=Getting to Know Michigan|publisher=Michigan Legislature|access-date=May 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329124440/https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/GettingToKnowMichigan.html|archive-date=March 29, 2023|url-status=live}}

Minnesota

|| Red pine (aka Norway pine) || Pinus resinosa || 200px || 1953{{cite book|url=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1953/0/Session+Law/Chapter/20/pdf/|chapter=CHAPTER 20—H. F. No. 8|title=Session Laws of Minnesota for 1953|date=February 18, 1953|pages=27–28|publisher=Minnesota Legislature|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808175927/https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1953/0/Session+Law/Chapter/20/pdf/|archive-date=August 8, 2022|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Mississippi

|| Southern magnolia || Magnolia grandiflora || 200px || 1952{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Education-Publications/Documents/Downloads/MS-Booklet-Symbol-Sheet.pdf|title=Mississippi State Emblems & Symbols|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017140128/http://www.sos.ms.gov/Education-Publications/Documents/Downloads/MS-Booklet-Symbol-Sheet.pdf|archive-date=October 17, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Missouri

|| Flowering dogwood || Cornus florida || 200px || 1955{{cite web|url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/symbol/tree|title=Missouri State Symbols|publisher=Missouri Secretary of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129152205/https://www.sos.mo.gov/symbol/tree|archive-date=January 29, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Montana

|| Ponderosa pine || Pinus ponderosa || 200px || 1949{{cite magazine|url=https://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2011/StateSymbols.htm|title=Standing for Montana|work=Montana Outdoors|publisher=Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks|date=March–April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131091146/https://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2011/StateSymbols.htm#.WJBU1aLP1qY|archive-date=January 31, 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Nebraska

|| Eastern cottonwood || Populus deltoides || 200px || 1972{{cite web |title=Nebraska Secretary of State |url=https://sos.nebraska.gov/symbols/tree.html |access-date=November 5, 2019}}

rowspan=2 | Nevada

|| Single-leaf pinyon || Pinus monophylla || 200px || 1959{{citation|url=https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-235.html|title=Chapter 235 – State Seal, Motto and Symbols; Gifts and Endowments|work=Nevada Revised Statutes|publisher=Nevada Legislature|access-date=May 28, 2023}}

| Great Basin bristlecone pinePinus longaeva200px1987
New Hampshire

|| American white birch || Betula papyrifera || 200px || 1947{{cite web|url=https://www.nh.gov/almanac/tree.htm|title=State Tree|work=New Hampshire Almanac|publisher=State of New Hampshire|access-date=May 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209013152/https://www.nh.gov/almanac/tree.htm|archive-date=February 9, 2023|url-status=live}}

New Jersey

|| Northern red oak || Quercus rubra || 200px || 1950{{cite web|url=https://njstatehousetours.org/tour/index.php/state-symbols/|title=State Symbols|publisher=New Jersey State House|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

New Mexico

|| Piñon pine || Pinus edulis || 200px || 1949{{cite web |url = http://www.sos.state.nm.us/KidsCorner/StateSymbols.html |title = New Mexico Secretary of State: Kid'S Corner |access-date = May 9, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080501042052/http://www.sos.state.nm.us/KidsCorner/StateSymbols.html |archive-date = May 1, 2008 |url-status = dead }}

New York

|| Sugar maple || Acer saccharum || 200px || 1956{{cite web|url=https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/emblems.htm|title=New York State Emblems|publisher=New York State Library|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

North Carolina

|| Pine || Pinus || 200px || 1963{{cite web |url=http://www.ncpedia.org/symbols/tree |title=North Carolina State Tree}}

North Dakota

|| American elm || Ulmus americana || 200px || 1947{{Citation |title= North Dakota Blue Book, 2019–2021 |publisher= North Dakota Department of State |page= 54 |url= http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndbb/id/22802/rec/27 |access-date= June 13, 2020}}

Northern Mariana Islands

|| Flame tree || Delonix regia || 200px ||1979{{citation |title= TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS § 231. Commonwealth Tree |work= Commonwealth Code |publisher= Commonwealth Law Revision Commission |url= https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T1/231.pdf |access-date= February 2, 2022}}

Ohio

|| Ohio buckeye || Aesculus glabra || 200px || 1953{{cite web|url=https://www.ohiosos.gov/profile-ohio/things/symbols-of-ohio/|title=Symbols of Ohio|publisher=Ohio Secretary of State|access-date=May 30, 2023}}

Oklahoma

|| Eastern redbud || Cercis canadensis || 200px || 1971{{cite web|url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RE016|title=Redbud.|last=Peck|first=Rebekah|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131044946/https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RE016|archive-date=January 31, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Oregon

|| Douglas fir || Pseudotsuga menziesii || 200px || 1939{{cite book|url=https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/facts/almanac/s-w.aspx|title=Oregon Blue Book|publisher=Oregon Secretary of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408094924/https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/facts/almanac/s-w.aspx|archive-date=April 8, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Pennsylvania

|| Eastern hemlock || Tsuga canadensis || 200px || 1931{{cite web|url=https://av.pasenategop.com/brochures/pa-symbols.pdf|title=Pennsylvania's State Symbols|publisher=Pennsylvania State Senate|date=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916175421/https://av.pasenategop.com/brochures/pa-symbols.pdf|archive-date=September 16, 2021|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/1931/0/0233..HTM|title=Hemlock Adopted as State Tree, P.L. 661, No. 233|date=June 22, 1931|publisher=Pennsylvania State Legislature|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102071045/https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/1931/0/0233..HTM|archive-date=January 2, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Puerto Rico

|| Ceiba (unofficial{{efn|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.}}) || Ceiba pentandra || 200px ||{{cite book |author=Feeney |first=Kathy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_iJKMEeAJIC&pg=PA17 |title=Puerto Rico Facts and Symbols |publisher=Capstone |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7368-2269-5 |pages=17– |oclc=1089529251}}

Rhode Island

|| Red maple || Acer rubrum ||200px|| 1964{{cite web|url=https://www.ri.gov/facts/factsfigures.php|title=State Symbols|publisher=Rhode Island|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218134848/https://www.ri.gov/facts/factsfigures.php|archive-date=February 18, 2022|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

South Carolina

|| Sabal palm || Sabal palmetto || 200px || 1939{{cite web |url = http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/tree.htm |title = South Carolina Statehouse student web page |access-date = July 15, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070622035012/http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/tree.htm |archive-date = June 22, 2007}}

South Dakota

|| Black Hills spruce || Picea glauca
var. densata || 200px || 1947{{cite web | title =South Dakota State symbols and emblems | url =http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/sd_symb.htm | access-date =October 20, 2008 }}

Tennessee

|| Tulip-tree || Liriodendron tulipifera || 200px || 1947{{cite book|url=https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/pub/blue_book/21-22/21-22abouttn.pdf|title=Tennessee Blue Book|section=Section VI – State of Tennessee|page=716|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507000742/https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/pub/blue_book/21-22/21-22abouttn.pdf|archive-date=May 7, 2022|url-status=live}}

Texas

|| Pecan || Carya illinoinensis || 200px || 1919{{cite web|url=https://lrl.texas.gov/LASDOCS/36R/SB317/SB317_36R.pdf|title=An Act naming the Pecan as the Texas State Tree, and declaring an emergency.|publisher=Texas Legislature|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108171926/https://lrl.texas.gov/LASDOCS/36R/SB317/SB317_36R.pdf|archive-date=January 8, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023|via=the Texas Legislative Reference Library}}

United States Virgin Islands

|| None || || ||{{citation |title= Title 1 - General Provisions Chapter 7 - Flag, Flower, and Medals |work= 2019 US Virgin Islands Code |url= https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-1/chapter-7/ |access-date= February 8, 2022}}

Utah

|| Quaking aspen || Populus tremuloides || 200px || 2014{{Cite news |last=Wood |first=Benjamin |date=March 26, 2014 |title=Utah state tree changes thanks to elementary students |publisher=KSL |url=https://www.ksl.com/article/29222272/utah-state-tree-changes-thanks-to-elementary-students |url-status=live |access-date=March 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407124427/https://www.ksl.com/article/29222272/utah-state-tree-changes-thanks-to-elementary-students |archive-date=April 7, 2020}}

Vermont

|| Sugar maple || Acer saccharum || 200px || 1949{{citation|url=https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/01/011/00499|title=Title 1: General Provisions – Chapter 011: Flag, Insignia, Seal, Etc. – § 499. State Tree|work=Vermont Statutes Annotated|publisher=Vermont General Assembly|access-date=May 30, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://fpr.vermont.gov/forest/vermonts-forests/history-forestry-vermont|title=History of Forestry in Vermont|publisher=Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129163708/https://fpr.vermont.gov/forest/vermonts-forests/history-forestry-vermont|archive-date=January 29, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Virginia

|| Flowering dogwood || Cornus florida || 200px || 1956{{cite web | title= Virginia State Tree | publisher=eReferenceDesk | url=https://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-tree/virginia.html | access-date=March 16, 2021}}

Washington

|| Western hemlock || Tsuga heterophylla || 200px || 1947{{citation |title= RCW 1.20.020 State tree |work= Revised Code of Washington |publisher= Washington State Legislature |url= https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=1.20.020 |access-date= February 7, 2022}}{{cite web|title=Symbols of Washington State |publisher=Washington State Legislature |url=https://leg.wa.gov/Symbols/Pages/default.aspx |access-date=February 7, 2022}}

West Virginia

|| Sugar maple || Acer saccharum || 200px || 1949{{cite book|url=https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/publications/bluebook/2017-2018/1039_WVS_BlueBook.pdf|section=Section 11: Departmental, Statistical & General Information|year=2017–2018|page=1043|title=West Virginia Blue Book|publisher=West Virginia Legislature|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429123529/https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/publications/bluebook/2017-2018/1039_WVS_BlueBook.pdf|archive-date=April 29, 2023|url-status=live}}

Wisconsin

|| Sugar maple || Acer saccharum || 200px || 1949{{cite web|title=Wisconsin State Symbols |publisher=State of Wisconsin |url=http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_symbols.html |access-date=December 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112222837/http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_symbols.html |archive-date=January 12, 2010 }}

Wyoming

|| Plains cottonwood || Populus deltoides monilifera || 200px || 1947, amended 1961{{cite web|url=https://sos.wyo.gov/Services/StateInfo_Symbols.aspx|title=State Symbols|publisher=Wyoming Secretary of State|access-date=May 28, 2023}}

See also

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