Nine U.S. states (California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Vermont, have officially declared a state mushroom. Minnesota was the first to declare a species; Morchella esculenta was chosen as its state mushroom in 1984, and codified into Statute in 2010. At the time the state mushroom was named, the species epithet Morchella esculenta applied to North American as well as European yellow morels, but following taxonomic revisions is now solely a European name.
Four other states, Missouri, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York have had state mushrooms proposed in their state legislatures.
Current state mushrooms
Proposed state mushrooms
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