List of Mississippi state symbols
The U.S. state of Mississippi has several official symbols.[1]
State symbols
- Bird: Mockingbird
- Butterfly Spicebush Swallowtail
- Fish: Largemouth Bass or Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
- Flag: Flag of Mississippi
- Flower: Magnolia
- Insect: Honeybee (Apis mellifera)
- Land Mammal: White-tailed Deer
- Shell: Oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
- Tree: Magnolia
- Waterfowl: Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
- Water Mammal: Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
- State Song: "Go, Mississippi"
- State Fossil: Prehistoric whales
- State Stone: Petrified wood
- State Fair: Jackson (early October)
- State Reptile American Alligator
References
- ^ "State of Mississippi Symbols". Mississippi.gov. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
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