State Symbols
Main article: State symbols of VermontState symbols include:
- State song – These Green Mountains,
- Unofficial popular state song – Moonlight in Vermont
- State Beverage – milk
- State Pie – apple pie
- State Fruit – apple
- State Flower – red clover
- State Mammal – Morgan horse
- State rock – granite, marble, and slate
- State Tree – sugar maple
- State butterfly – Monarch Butterfly
- State fish cold water – Brook Trout
- State fish warm water – Walleye Pike
- State Fossil – White Whale (Beluga Whale)
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