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The Iowa State Flower is the Wild Rose.
The Iowa state flower is the Wild Prairie Rose.
Wild rose is the official state flower in Iowa.
The Iowa state flower is the Wild Prairie Rose.
The Wild Prairie Rose is the state flower for Iowa and North Dakota.
Both Iowa and North Dakota have the Wild Prairie Rose as their official state flower.
Wild Prairie Rose or Rosa arkansana
The Iowa Legislature designated the Wild Rose as the official state flower in 1897. It was chosen for the honor because it was one of the decorations used on the silver service which the state presented to the battleship USS Iowa that same year.
The Cherokee Rose is the "state floral emblem" of Georgia The Wild Prairie Rose is the state flower of Iowa and North Dakota The Rose is the state flower of New York (no particular rose specified) The Oklahoma Rose is the state flower of Oklahoma Also The Camilla (sometimes called the "Rose of Winter") is the state flower of California, but it is actually from the Order Ericales and Family Theaceae while roses are from the Order Rosales and Family Rosaceae.
Alberta's flower is the Wild rose :)
Herbert Hoover's symbol was a wild rose because he was from the state of Iowa.
The North Dakota Federation of Women supported the Wild Prairie Rose (Rosa blanda or Rosa arkansana) to be the state flower in 1898. North Dakota school children also voted for the Wild Prairie Rose to be the state flower.In 1899, the first graduating class of the University of North Dakota selected the colors pink and green, chosen directly from the wild prairie rose growing on the campus, as their school colors. This contributed to choosing the Wild Prairie Rose as the state flower.Senator Louis B. Hanna sponsored a bill to name the Wild Prairie Rose the official floral emblem of the state and it officially became the state flower on March 7, 1907.