State Nickname: “Lone Star State”

Capital City: Austin

Economy:

Agriculture: Cattle, cotton, dairy products, nursery stock, poultry, sorghum, corn, wheat

Industry: Chemical products, petroleum and natural gas, food processing, electric equipment, machinery, mining, tourism.

State Motto: The word Friendship was adopted as the Texas state motto by the Forty-first Texas Legislature in February 1930. The word was probably chosen because the name Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word sometimes translated to mean “friends” or “allies.” Source: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/index.html

State Flag: The state flag consists of a rectangle with a width to length ratio of two to three containing: (1) a blue vertical stripe one-third the entire length of the flag wide, and two equal horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower red, each two-thirds the entire length of the flag long; and (2) a white, regular five-pointed star in the center of the blue stripe, oriented so that one point faces upward, and of such a size that the diameter of a circle passing through the five points of the star is equal to three-fourths the width of the blue stripe. Source: http://www.lsjunction.com/flag.htm

State Seal: There shall be a Seal of the State which shall be kept by the secretary of state, and used by him officially under the direction of the governor. The Seal of the State shall be a star of five points, encircled by olive and live oak branches, and the words, “The State of Texas.” Texas Constitution, article IV, section 19. Source: Texas Secretary of State Web Site

State Flower: On March 7, 1901, the Twenty-seventh Texas Legislature adopted thebluebonnet, flower of the annual legume Lupinus subcarnosus, as the state flower. The flower’s popular name derives from its resemblance to a sunbonnet. It has also been called buffalo clover, wolf flower, and, in Spanish, el conejo (“the rabbit”).
Source: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/

State Tree: The pecan was made the official state tree of Texas by an act of the Thirty-sixth Legislature in regular session, 1919. Acts of the Fortieth Legislature, 1927, confirmed the choice. Sentiment favoring the pecan as the state tree was fostered by the request of Governor James Stephen Hoggqv that a pecan tree be planted at his grave. The pecan is one of the most widely distributed trees in Texas. It is native to more than 150 counties and is grown commercially in thirty additional counties.