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Nearly every state grass is shared by another state.
Nevada/Utah: Indian ricegrass, New Mexico/Colorado: Blue grama, Washington/Montana: Bluebunch wheatgrass, Wyoming/South Dakota/North Dakota: Western wheatgrass, Missouri/Illinois: Big bluestem
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Pastels everywhere.
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Wisconsin, Illinois, Rhode Island, and New Jersey all share the genus Viola (the violet) as the state flower.
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Incredibly, every single state has a state soil. (Though not all have been legislatively established.)
That’s a lot of dirt.
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Washington and Mississippi disagree on what petrified wood should be classified as. While Washington declared it as their state gemstone, Mississippi calls it their state rock.
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Fewer states have declared a state mineral, AKA the gemstone’s less glamorous cousin. (Though California, Alaska, and North Carolina all share gold.)
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Texas is the only state to also have a state gemstone cut- the “Lone Star Cut”.
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All but 10 states (Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire) do not have a state fossil.
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That is one shiny country.
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A good number of states have a red, white, and blue color scheme for their license plates.
