I still can't get over how stunning Jill Biden's evening dress and coat were on Wednesday night - embroidered with the state flowers of all fifty states, with the state flower of Delaware nearest to her heart. I had to check that one: it's peach blossom (and was chosen as the state flower in 1895). You'll be wondering: Georgia has the Cherokee Rose, or Rosa laevigata, as its state flower: I guess the peach was already taken by the time they chose that in 1916. In 1927, New Mexico designated the yucca flower (any yucca flower will do, apparently), as its state flower, selected by the schoolchildren of New Mexico and then recommended by the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs. There aren't any yucca flowers in bloom in mid-January, of course, so I had to make do with a yucca bush or two with some dried seed heads on them, and illuminated by sunlight. And Kansas grabbed the sunflower in 1903, just before Nebraska, which also had its eye on it.
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