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Designation Symbol / Emblem Adopted
Great Seal Find out more 1777
Floral Emblem Peach Blossom 1895
Flag Find out more 1913
Song "Our Delaware" by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine, music by Will M. S. Brown 1925
Bird Blue Hen Chicken (University of Delaware) 1939
Tree American Holly (Aquifoliaceae Ilex opaca) 1939
Colors Colonial Blue and Buff 1953
Flower Peach Blossom 1953
Bug Lady Bug 1974
Butterfly Tiger Swallowtail (Pterourus glaucus) 1974
Mineral Sillimanite 1977
Fish Weakfish (Cynoscion genus) 1981
Beverage Milk 1983
Fossil Belemnite (Ancestor of the modern squid.) 1996
Herb Sweet Golden Rod (Solidago odora) 1996
Soil Greenwich loam* (a course, loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic, Typic Hapludult) 2000
Star Delaware Diamond, located in the constellation of Ursa Major (Great Bear). 2000
Marine Animal Horseshoe Crab 2002
Macroinvertebrate Stonefly (Order Plecoptera) 2005
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