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State symbols and emblems
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Designation Symbol / Emblem Adopted
Great Seal Find out more 1863
Flower Big Laurel (Rhododendron maximum) 1903
Day West Virginia Day, June 20 1927
Flag Find out more 1929
Bird Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 1949
Tree Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) by House Concurrent Resolution No. 12 1949
Colors Old gold and blue 1963
Songs "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home" by Julian G. Hearne, Jr.
"The West Virginia Hills" words and music by Ellen King and H.E. Engle
"This is My West Virginia" by Iris Bell		 1963
Fruit Apple (by House Concurrent Resolution No. 56 - ammended in 1995 to specify the Golden Delicious Apple) 1972
Animal Black Bear (Ursus americanus) 1973
Fish Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) 1973
Fruit Apple (Malus Mill.)
Golden Delicious Apple (Malus Mill.)		 1972
1995
Gem Chalcedony 1990
Butterfly Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) 1995
Soil Monongahela Silt Loam* 1997
Insect Honeybee 2002
Tartan West Virginia Shawl 2008
Fossil Megalonyx jeffersonii 2008
Reptile Timber rattlesnake 2008
Rock Bituminous coal 2009
How a Bill Becomes Law in West Virginia
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