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Facts about
Texas
State Nickname:
"Lone Star State"
Capital City:
Austin
Economy:
Agriculture: Cattle, cotton,
dairy products, nursery stock, poultry, sorghum, corn, wheat
Industry: Chemical products,
petroleum and natural gas, food processing, electric equipment,
machinery, mining, tourism.
State Motto:
The word Friendship was adopted as the Texas
state motto by the Forty-first Texas Legislature in February
1930. The word was probably chosen because the name Texas
or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word
sometimes translated to mean "friends" or "allies."
Source: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/index.html
State Flag: The
state flag consists of a rectangle with a width to length
ratio of two to three containing: (1) a blue vertical stripe
one-third the entire length of the flag wide, and two equal
horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower red,
each two-thirds the entire length of the flag long; and (2)
a white, regular five-pointed star in the center of the blue
stripe, oriented so that one point faces upward, and of such
a size that the diameter of a circle passing through the five
points of the star is equal to three-fourths the width of
the blue stripe.
Source: http://www.lsjunction.com/flag.htm
 State
Seal: There shall be a Seal of the State which shall
be kept by the secretary of state, and used by him officially
under the direction of the governor. The Seal of the State
shall be a star of five points, encircled by olive and live
oak branches, and the words, "The State of Texas."
Texas Constitution, article IV, section 19. Source: Texas
Secretary of State Web Site
 State
Flower: On March 7, 1901, the Twenty-seventh Texas
Legislature adopted the bluebonnet, flower of the annual
legume Lupinus subcarnosus, as the state flower. The flower's
popular name derives from its resemblance to a sunbonnet.
It has also been called buffalo clover, wolf flower, and,
in Spanish, el conejo ("the rabbit").
Source: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/
 State
Tree: The pecan was made the official state
tree of Texas by an act of the Thirty-sixth Legislature in
regular session, 1919. Acts of the Fortieth Legislature, 1927,
confirmed the choice. Sentiment favoring the pecan as the
state tree was fostered by the request of Governor James Stephen
Hoggqv that a pecan tree be planted at his grave. The pecan
is one of the most widely distributed trees in Texas. It is
native to more than 150 counties and is grown commercially
in thirty additional counties.
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