Main article: List of Alaska state symbols
The forget-me-not is the state's official flower and bears the same blue and gold as the state flag.
- State motto: North to the Future
- Nicknames: "The Last Frontier" or "Land of the Midnight Sun" or "Seward's Icebox"
- State bird: willow ptarmigan, adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1955. It is a small (15–17 in or 380–430 mm) Arctic grouse that lives among willows and on open tundra and muskeg. Plumage is brown in summer, changing to white in winter. The willow ptarmigan is common in much of Alaska.
- State fish: king salmon, adopted 1962.
- State flower: wild/native forget-me-not, adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1917.[121] It is a perennial that is found throughout Alaska, from Hyder to the Arctic Coast, and west to the Aleutians.
- State fossil: woolly mammoth, adopted 1986.
- State gem: jade, adopted 1968.
- State insect: four-spot skimmer dragonfly, adopted 1995.
- State land mammal: moose, adopted 1998.
- State marine mammal: bowhead whale, adopted 1983.
- State mineral: gold, adopted 1968.
- State song: "Alaska's Flag"
- State sport: dog mushing, adopted 1972.
- State tree: Sitka spruce, adopted 1962.
- State dog: Alaskan Malamute, adopted 2010.[122]
- State soil: Tanana,[123] adopted unknown.
See also
- Index of Alaska-related articles
- Outline of Alaska – organized list of topics about Alaska
- Sports in Alaska
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