Missouri made the flowering dogwood its state tree in 1955 due to the beauty of its flowers in the springtime. But in recent days, TikTok disagreed with that choice.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The flowering dogwood tree celebrates its 70th birthday as the Missouri state tree in 2025. There is no better place to celebrate than Missouri’s Ozark woodlands from mid-April ...

Wild plum produces clusters of delicate white flowers that are visited by several species of bees. This small, thicket-forming tree is common along roadsides, in old fields, and on the edge of woods.

The state tree of Missouri, the dogwood, bloomed especially early this year. The cupped white or red flowers started to pop out at the end of March, about two weeks earlier than the trees bloomed ...

Tole artist Helen Hornberger created each artificial flower representing each state to create for a bouquet displaying America’s floral diversity. MISSOURI: The White Hawthorn Blossom (Crataegus) was ...

March 21 was known as "Bird Day in Missouri" from 1917–1973 until a revision in state law unintentionally wiped it off the books, according to a 2001 Kansas City Star report.