Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ashley M. Stevanovich

Each of the 50 United States of America have an official flower. This flower serves as a symbol and representation of the state and it's citizens. Ashley Stevanovich has a great interest in state flowers. Alaska's forget-me-not is a favorite flower. This perennial blooms purple and turns a beautiful shade of blue as it ages.

Ashley Stevanovich would be interested in the fact that there was a heated battle when it came to selecting the state flower for Texas. It came down to the cotton boll, cactus and the bluebonnet. The Lupinus subcarnosus, commonly known as bluebonnet, was the winner.

In 1957 the Indiana General Assembly officially adopted the peony as the state flower, replacing the zinnia, which held the honor for almost twenty years. Ashley Stevanovich knows that state flowers have an incredibly rich and interesting history.

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