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Nicknames | The Peace Garden State, Flickertail State, Roughrider State, Sioux State, Land of the Dakotas | 1957 |
Motto | Liberty and Union Now and Forever, One and Inseparable | |
Latin Motto | Serit ut alteri saeclo prosit | 2011 |
Song | North Dakota Hymn | 1947 |
EcoSymbols > | ||
Flower | wild prairie rose (Rosa arkansana) | 1907 |
Tree | American elm (Ulmus americana) | 1947 |
Grass | western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii) | 1977 |
Fruit | chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) | 2007 |
Bird | western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) | 1947 |
Honorary State Equine | Nokota Horse (Equus caballus) | 1993 |
Fish | northern pike (Esox lucius) | 1969 |
Insect | convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens) | 2011 |
Soil | Williams (unofficial) |
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Fossil † | teredo petrified wood (Plantae) | 1967 |
Cultural Symbols > | ||
Railroad Museum | Mandan Railroad Museum | 1989 |
Beverage | milk |
1983 |
Dance | square dance |
1995 |
March | Flickertail March | 1975 |
Art Museum | The North Dakota Museum of Art (on the North Dakota University Campus at Grand Forks) | 1981 |
Language | English |
1987 |
North Dakota Symbols ˆ
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