Stamp depicting Utah’s state flower and bird
Picture of Utah’s state flag
Picture of Utah’s state seal
location map (Utah)
Adapted from Wikipedia Commons

• Read an Introduction to Utah symbols.
• To learn more about a symbol, click its link in the left column (Designation) of the table below.
A check mark (check mark (article available)) indicates an article, with or without pictures, about that symbol. (However, many symbol pages without check marks nevertheless have a little text, pictures and/or links to related resources.)

Designation Symbol Scientific Name Year
Flag 1913
Seal 1896
Nickname Beehive State
Nickname Mormon State
Nickname Salt Lake State
Nickname Land of the Saints
Emblem beehive 1959
Motto Industry 1959
Song Utah, This is the Place 2003
check mark (article available)Flower Sego lily Calochortus nuttallii 1911
check mark (article available)Tree blue spruce Picea pungens 1933
Grass Indian ricegrass Achnatherum hymenoides 1990
Fruit cherry Prunus 1997
Vegetable Spanish sweet onion Allium cepa 2002
Historic Vegetable sugar beet Beta procumbens 2002
check mark (article available)Bird California gull Larus californicus 1955
Animal Rocky Mountain elk Castor canadensis 1971
Fish Bonneville cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki utah 1997
Insect honeybee Apis mellifera 1983
Soil Mivida
Fossil Allosaurus Allosaurus 1988
Rock coal 1991
Gem topaz 1969
Mineral copper 1994
Hymn Utah, We Love Thee 2003
Folk Dance square dance 1994
Cooking Pot Dutch oven 1997
Railroad Museum Odgen Union Station 1988
Centennial Star Dubhe 1996
Astronomical Symbol The Beehive Cluster located in the constellation of Cancer the Cr 1996


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