List of Missouri state symbols
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 | |
Animal | Missouri mule | 1995 | |
Aquatic animal | Paddlefish Polyodon spathula | 1997 | |
Bird | Bluebird Sialia sialis | 1927 or 1929 | |
Dance | Square dance | 1995 | |
Dessert | Ice cream cone | 2008 | |
Dinosaur | Hypsibema missouriensis | 2004 | |
Fish | Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus | 1997 | |
Flower | Hawthorn Crataegus punctata | 1923 | |
Fossil | Crinoid Delocrinus missouriensis | 1989 | |
Game bird | Bobwhite Quail Colinus virginianus | 2007 | |
Grape | Norton Vitis aestivalis | 2003 | |
Grass | Big bluestem Andropogon gerardi | 2007 | |
Hockey team | St. Louis Blues | 2019 | |
Holiday | Missouri Day | 1915 | |
Horse | Missouri Fox Trotter Equus ferus caballus | 2002 | |
Insect | Honeybee Apis mellifera | 1985 | |
Invertebrate | Crayfish | 2007 | |
Mineral | Galena | 1967 | |
Motto | Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto | 1822 | |
Musical instrument | Fiddle | 1987 | |
Reptile | Three-toed box turtle Terrapene carolina triunguis | 2007 | |
Rock | Mozarkite | 1967 | |
Song | "Missouri Waltz" | 1949 | |
Tartan | "Missouri Tartan" | 2019 | |
Tree | Flowering dogwood Cornus florida | 1955 | |
Tree nut | Eastern black walnut Juglans nigra | 1990 |