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Texas State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots
Texas sharing a border with Mexico, is one of the largest US states featuring several major cities, large ranches, and rugged plains. This state has more farmland, heads of cattle, and wool produced than any other state. With its well-known cuisines (barbeque and Tex-Mex), cowboy fashions, and live music concerts, Texas offers students an American southwestern experience.
The Republic of Texas achieved its independence from Mexico in 1836, the same year as the famous siege of the Alamo in which pioneers Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were slain. The "Lone Star State" was the 28th state to join the Union, admitted in 1845. The name Texas is a Spanish name, which comes from an Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies." Texas is the second-largest state in the Union in area, after Alaska. Although it has a wild, frontier history, today Texas is a major producer of oil and has important centers of industry and finance. A Texas state historian has said that the Texas symbol, the state flower, the bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) and any other variety of bluebonnet Bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus), "is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland."
Texas State Symbols contains descriptions and pictures of the state symbols, emblems, and mascots of the state, which can be quickly accessed. This resource guide represents many of Texas state facts such as Texas state symbols, the state flower, the state gemstone, the state insect, the state tree, the state bird, the state animal, the state flag that flies over Texas, and the capital, as well as many more symbols, emblems, and mascots.
Texas State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots |
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Symbols |
Symbol Name - (Species) |
| 10K | Texas Round-Up 0K |
| Air Force | Commemorative Air Force formerly Confederate Air Force |
| Amphibian | Texas toad (Bufo speciosus) |
| Aquarium | Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi |
| Artist | Artist Listing |
| Artist Caricature | Kid Cardona |
| Bird | Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) |
| Bison Herd | Texas bison herd ad Caprock State Park |
| Bluebonnet City | Ennis |
| Bluebonnet Festival | The Chappell Hill Bluebonnet Festival |
| Bluebonnet Trail | Ennis |
| Bread | Pan De Campo (Cowboy Bread) |
| Butterfly Capital | Jasper - June 10, 2015 |
| Cooking Implement | Cast Iron Dutch Oven |
| Cotton gin museum | Burton Cotton Gin & Museum, Burton |
| Dinosaur (Old) Dinosaur (New) |
Sauropod Dinosaur (Brachiosaur sauropod, Pleurocoelus) Replaced by The quadrupedal sauropodi (Paluxysaurus jonesi) |
| Dish | Chili |
| Dog Breed | Blue Lacy |
| Domino game | 42 |
| Epic poem | "The Legend of Old Stone Ranch" |
| Fibre and Fabric | Cotton |
| Fish | Guadelupe Bass (Micropterus treculi) |
| Flag | State Flag |
| Flower | Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) and any other variety of bluebonnet Bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus) |
| Flower Song | "Bluebonnets" |
| Flying Mammal | Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) |
| Folk Dance | Square Dance |
| Footwear | Cowboy boot |
| Fruit | Texas Red Grapefruit |
| Gemstone | Texas Blue Topaz |
| Gemstone Cut | Lonestar Cut |
| Grass | Sideoats gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula) |
| Hashtag of Texas Legislature | #txlege - June 19, 2015 |
| Hashtag of state of Texas | #Texas - June 19, 2015 |
| Hashtag of Texas tourism | #TexasToDo - June 19, 2015 |
| Hat | Cowboy hat - June 17, 2015 |
| Health Nut | Pecan |
| Hero | Earl Campbell |
| Hero | Carl Lewis |
| Home of "Old Rip-- The Most Famous Horned Toad in Texas." | Eastland |
| Horned lizard capital of Texas | Kenedy |
| Horse | American quarter horse (Equus caballus) |
| Insect | Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) |
| Large Mammal | Longhorn (Bos bos) |
| Longhorn herd | Texas Parks and Wildlife's foundation herd |
| Motto | Friendship |
| Music | Western swing |
| Musician | Leonardo "Flaco"Jimenez, San Antonio (2014) |
| Musical Instrument | Guitar |
| Native Pepper | Chiltepin (Capsicum annuum var. aviculare) |
| Native Shrub | Texas Purple Sage |
| Nicknames | Lone Star State - June 19, 2015 |
| Pastries | Sopaipilla and Strudel (Expired) |
| Pepper | Jalapeno (Capsicum annum) |
| Pie | Pecan pie |
| Plant | Prickly Pear Cactus (genus Opuntia) |
| Plays | (1) "The Lone Star" presented in Galveston Island State Park (2)"Texas" presented in the Palo Duro Canyon State Park (3)" Beyond the Sundown" presented at the Texas-Coushatta Indian Reservation
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| Pledge to Flag | Pledge to Flag |
| Poet Laureate | James Hoggard, Wichita Falls; Term: 2000 and 2001 Walt McDonald, Lubboc Term: 2001 and 2002 |
| Pollinator | Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) - June 10, 2015 |
| Precious metal | Silver |
| Quarter | Texas State Quarter |
| Railroad | Texas State Railroad |
| Reptile | Texas Horned Lizard |
| Rodeo Drill Team | Ghostriders |
| Saltwater Fish | Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) |
| Sea Turtle | Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) |
| Seal | Great Seal |
| Shell | Lightning Whelk |
| Ship | USS Texas |
| Shrub | Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) |
| Small Mammal | Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) |
| Snack | Tortilla Chips and Salsa |
| Song | "Texas, Our Texas" Words by Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright Music by William J. Marsh |
| Sport | Rodeo |
| Stone | Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon sp.) |
| Symbolic Capitals | Symbolic Capitals (Various ) |
| Tall Ship | Elissa |
| Tartan | Texas Bluebonnet Tartan |
| Tejano Music Hall of Fame | The Tejano Music Hall of Fame Museum, Alice |
| Three-dimensional media Artist | Mr. Edd Hayes |
| Tie | Bolo tie |
| Tree | Pecan |
| Two-dimensional media Artist | Carl Rice Embrey |
| Vaquero Capital | Jim Hogg County - June 17, 2015 |
| Vegetable | Sweet Onion (Allium genus) |
| Vehicle | Chuckwagon |
| Waterlily | Nymphaea Texas Dawn |
