That palmetto tree in your yard didn't come from the Palmetto State. Or at least, that was usually the case in the 28 years Ollie Olivier sold palms in the Charleston area and beyond. Olivier ...

A proposed new look for the beloved state tree has drawn complaints that it looks like a toilet brush or like one of the palmettos battered by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

South Carolina senators may soon take up one of the most divisive issues to hit the state in years: standardizing the state flag’s iconic palmetto tree and crescent design.

The proposed new design for South Carolina’s state flag began circulating online late last month, and the social media reaction lacked any Southern niceties.

Below is the design the historians settled on, and the most notable difference is the palmetto tree. SC Flag Study Committee Recommended Design for Officials SC State Flag (Provided). JPG.

One Hanahan resident is doing all he can to save his Palmetto tree after receiving a notice from Dominion Energy that it’s been scheduled to be cut down.

The tree is called saw palmetto and the Indian River County Sheriff's Office announced it arrested at least 15 people caught illegally harvesting the stuff.

Here’s the history behind some of Charleston’s most famous icons: Palmetto Tree The Palmetto Tree was made the official state tree in 1939, but its connection to Charleston dates back to pre ...

This version added the palmetto tree to the original design by Colonel William Moultrie in 1775 for use by South Carolina troops during the Revolutionary War.

The palmetto tree is on South Carolina's state flag, and that design has a story worth telling. The story goes back to the Revolutionary War, when British troops attacked the Fort Moultrie on ...

In 2001, Ryall, as then-executive director of the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, headed the Palmetto Tree Project, in which artists projected their visions on specially ...

Malyerc also understands the draw of the palmetto tree and crescent, an image that in the past 20 years has cropped up everywhere in the state.