State Symbols
- Nickname: The Hawkeye State
- Bird: Eastern Goldfinch
- Flower: Wild Rose
- Grass: Bluebunch Wheatgrass
- Tree: Oak
- Motto: "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain."
- Rock: Geode
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