Here’s something you may not have known; Nevada’s state flower is Sagebrush. Kind of boring, but you’ve only got a limited bunch to work with when the whole state is basically desert. This is what it looks like.

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Yeah, you can hardly blame people for wanting to change that. Luckily for the state of Nevada, another flower has come along.

As has become common these days, people are using everyone’s favourite unreliable information source – Wikipedia – as a place to make jokes. Marc-Andre Fleury, who is affectionately nicknamed Flower, became a popular face in the state after coming to join the Vegas Golden Knights NHL expansion team. Now he is the official flower of the state according to Wikipedia.

 

Honestly, who would miss sagebrush? We may have found Nevada a new state flower.

 

 

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He could probably also double as the state flower for Pennsylvania, to be completely honest.