Rose

The rose is the perfect national flower for the diverse, beautiful, loving USA.

Roses have grown in the United States for millennia; archaeological evidence suggests that the plant may be as much as 35 million years old!

George Washington, the first president, had a rose garden and a variety he bred and named for his mother, the Mary Washington Rose is grown to this day.

There is an extensive rose garden at the White House, and some of the state capitols maintain rose gardens as well (one example is the International World Peace Rose Garden in Sacramento, California).

While not every rose grows everywhere, roses are cultivated in all fifty states, making the flower a fitting symbol for a diverse, though unified, country.

Other countries have used the rose as a symbol of unity, and so it is in the United States.