State of Tennessee Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
for educators, classrooms and themed decor in studio or office.

Tennessee has two floral symbols.

The state flower, the Iris, is a perennial herb with showy flowers in a wide range of colors. Iris is the Greek word for rainbow; the French fleur-de-lis is a stylized iris.

The Passion Flower is the state wild flower. It is also commonly known as the maypop, the wild apricot and the ocoee for Tennessee's Ocoee River. The 'passion' in Passion Flower refers to the structure of the blossom that resembles symbols of the Crucifixion of Jesus — the three crosses, the crown of thorns, nails and cords.

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Tulip poplars, the Tennesse state tree, can grow to more than 165 feet (50 meters) in virgin cove forests of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a valuable timber tree due to its growing habit of oftern having no limbs until it reaches 80–100 feet in height.

Tulip poplar flowers are pale green or yellow with an orange band on the tepals. They generally produce large quantities of nectar making it a major honey plant in the eastern United States.

The tulip tree is also the state tree of Indiana and Kentucky.

Showing Both Sides of the Firefly, Also Called Lightning Bugs, Photographic Print

Fireflies, also known as lightening bugs, are beetles that produce light in their abdomen to attract mates. The males fly about flashing, a waiting female will flash back if she is interested. The firefly even has a song - Glow Little Glowworm, The Mills Brothers hit of the 1950s.

The Firefly is the Pennsylvania and Tennessee State Insect and proposed as the Indiana State Insect.

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The Mockingbird is the state bird of Tennessee. The Bobwhite, who has the distinct 'bob-white' call, is the game bird of both Tennessee and Georgia.

Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned corporation, was created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region significantly impacted by the Great Depression.

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Wooden Mortar and Pestle for Grinding Corn, Chucalissa Native American Village, Memphis, Tennessee, Photographic Print

Cades Cove, an isolated valley in eastern Tennessee, became a part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1930s.

A grist mill is where grain is ground into flour, an important service to farming communities.

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Andrew Jackson (D)
(7th President, 1829-1837)
b. 3-15-1767; Waxhaw, SC
d. 6-8-1845; The Hermitage, TN

• Andrew Jackson print