List of Missouri state symbols

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The following is a list of the officially designated symbols of the U.S. state of Missouri.

State symbols

Type Symbol Adopted Image
Amphibian American bullfrog
Lithobates catesbeiana		 2005[1][2] American bull frog
Animal Missouri mule 1995[1][3] Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes with champion mules at 1969 state fair
Aquatic animal Paddlefish
Polyodon spathula		 1997[1][4] Paddlefish
Bird Bluebird
Sialia sialis		 1927[5] or 1929[1] Bluebird
Dance Square dance
 1995[1][6] Square Dance
Dessert Ice cream 2008[1][7] Ice Cream
Dinosaur Hypsibema missouriensis 2004[1][8]
Fish Channel catfish
Ictalurus punctatus		 1997[1][9] Channel Catfish
Flower Hawthorn (also known as "red haw" or "wild haw")[1]
Crataegus punctata		 1923[10] White Hawthorn
Fossil Crinoid
Delocrinus missouriensis		 1989[1][11] Crinoid
Game bird Bobwhite Quail
Colinus virginianus[12]		 2007[1] Bobwhite Quail
Grape Norton
Vitis aestivalis		 2003[1][13] Norton
Grass Big bluestem
Andropogon gerardi		 2007[1][14] Big Bluestem
Holiday Missouri Day
(Third Wednesday in October)		 1915[15] Missouri Day is the third Wednesday in October.
Horse Missouri Fox Trotter
Equus ferus caballus		 2002[1][16] Missouri Fox Trotter
Insect Honeybee
Apis mellifera		 1985[1][17] Honeybee
Invertebrate Crayfish
 2007[1][18] Crayfish
Mineral Galena 1967[1][19] Galena
Motto Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto
(Latin: "Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.")		 1822[20] A 10-cent Saint Louis postage stamp, 1845-46, bears the state seal and motto.
Musical instrument Fiddle 1987[1][21] Fiddle
Reptiles Three-toed box turtle
Terrapene carolina triunguis		 2007[1][22] Three-toed Box Turtle
Rock Mozarkite 1967[1][23] Mozarkite
Song "Missouri Waltz" 1949[1][24] Missouri Waltz
Tree Flowering dogwood
Cornus florida		 1955[1][25] Flowering Dogwood
Tree nut Eastern black walnut
Juglans nigra		 1990[1][26] Eastern Black Walnut

See also

References

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