Virginia Official State Symbols
State Sanctioned Symbolism
- Beverage:
- Milk
- Bird:
- Cardinal (Richmondena cardinalis)
- Boat:
- Chesapeake Bay Deadrise
- Dog:
- American Foxhound
- Fish:
- Brook trout
- Flag:
- State seal (Virtus, dressed as an Amazon, resting on a spear. In her left hand is a sword. Her left foot rests on the chest of the body of a man representing Tyranny) on a field of blue
- Floral emblem:
- American Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Folkdance:
- Square Dancing
- Folklore Center:
- Blue Ridge Institute in Ferrum
- Fossil:
- Chesapecten jeffersonius (mussel shell discovered in 1687 and later named after Thomas Jefferson because of his interest in natural history).
- Insect:
- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
- Motto:
- Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus Always to Tyrants)
- Shell:
- Oyster (Crassostraea virginica)
- Travel Slogan:
- "Virginia is for Lovers"