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This is a list of the officially designated symbols of the U.S. State of California.
[edit] State symbols
- Beverage: Wine
- Bird: California Quail (Callipepla californica)
- Colors: Blue, which represents the sky and Gold, which represents the color of the precious metal found by forty-niners in the state's hills.
- Dance: West Coast Swing
- Fife and drum corps: California Consolidated Drum Band
- Fish: Golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita) (fresh water), Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) (salt water)
- Flags:
- Flower: California poppy (Eschsholzia californica)
- Folk dance: Square Dance
- Fossil: Saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus)
- Gemstone: Benitoite
- Gold Rush Ghost Town: Bodie
- Grass: Purple Needlegrass (Nassella pulchra)
- Historical Society: California Historical Society
- Insect: California dogface butterfly (Colias eurydice)
- License plate: "White with "California" in a red script across the top."
- Mammal: Grizzly bear (Ursus californicus)
- Marine mammal: Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
- Military Museum: California State Military Museum
- Mineral: Gold
- Motto: Eureka
- Nicknames: Golden State (official), El Dorado State, Golden West, Grape State, Land of Milk and Honey, Land of Fruits and Nuts (derisive), Entertainment State, Land of the Fires, Movie State
- Poet Laureate: Al Young
- Prehistoric artifact: Chipped stone bear
- Reptile: Desert tortoise (gopherus agassizi)
- Rock: Serpentine
- Seal: The Seal of California: "The seal features Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom; a California grizzly bear (the official state animal) feeding on grape vines, representing California wine production; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture; a miner, representing the California Gold Rush and the mining industry; sailing ships, representing the state's economic power; and San Francisco Bay or the Sacramento River. The phrase "Eureka," meaning "I have found it!" is the California state motto."
- Silver Rush Ghost Town: Calico
- Slogan: Find Yourself Here
- Soil: San Joaquin
- Song: I Love You, California
- Tall ship: SS Californian
- Tartan: California State Tartan
- Theater: Pasadena Playhouse
- Tree: Sequoia (California redwood): Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Sequoia), Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood)
- United States quarter dollar - California 2005:
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