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Michigan Facts
Origin of Name: From Indian word "Michigana" meaning "great or large lake"
Nickname: Wolverine State
Motto: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you)
State Symbols:
flower - apple blossom (1897)
bird - robin (1931)
mammal - white-tailed deer (1997)
fishes - trout (1965), brook trout (1988)
gem - isle royal greenstone (chlorastrolite) (1972)
stone - petoskey stone (1965)
tree - white pine (1955)
soil - kalkaska soil series (1990)
reptile - painted turtle (1995)
flag - "Blue charged with the arms of the state" (1911)
wildflower - Dwarf Lake iris (1998)
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