Nevada state symbols

How to read it

Chapter 235 of the Nevada Revised Statutes names “the Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)” as the state bird, added in 1967, and “the shrub known as Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata or trifida)” as the state flower, added in 1959: the state flower is a shrub. The motto is on the great seal, where “Thirty-six stars and the motto of our state, ‘All for Our Country,’ must encircle the whole group”, a section dating from 1866. Nevada Magazine, from the state’s Division of Tourism, says the seal was first designated in 1864 and changed in 1866, when the motto went from “Volens et potens”, “willing and able”, to “All for Our Country”. The state song is “Home Means Nevada” by Bertha Raffetto of Reno, adopted in 1933, and the Legislature notes that Nevada is known as the Silver State.

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Two state trees

Nevada has two. The statute names the single-leaf piñon (Pinus monophylla) and the bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) as the official state trees. The Legislature’s own page says the piñon was named in 1953 and the bristlecone pine became the second state tree in 1987. Nevada Magazine gives 1959 for the piñon, the year the statute was amended; the statute’s history begins in 1953.