List of New Mexico state symbols

Location of the state of New Mexico in the United States of America

This is a list of state symbols of New Mexico.

Type	Symbol	Year
State capital	Santa Fe	1610
State motto	Latin: Crescit eundo, It Grows as It Goes	1912
State nicknames	Land of Enchantment, Spanish: Tierra del Encanto, or Tierra Encantada	19_?
	The Colorful State	19_?
	The Spanish State	19_?
State seal	Great Seal of the State of New Mexico	1913
State songs	O Fair New Mexico, Spanish: O, Justo Nuevo México (English state song)	1917
	Spanish: Asi Es Nuevo México, Such Is New Mexico (Spanish state song)	1971
	Spanish: New Mexico-Mi Lindo Nuevo México, New Mexico-My Lovely New Mexico (bilingual state song)	1995
State flag	Zia Sun symbol	1925
State flower	Yucca flower	1927
State tree	Two-needle piñon pine	1949
State bird	Greater roadrunner	1949
State fish	Cutthroat trout	1955
State animal	Black bear	1963
State vegetables	Spanish: Frijoles con chile (English pronunciation: /friːˈhoʊləs koʊn ˈtʃiːlə/, US dict: frē∙hōl′∙əs cōn chē′·lə) (refried beans with chile peppers), and Chile pepper	1965
State gem	Turquoise	1967
State grass	Blue grama	1973
State fossil	Coelophysis	1981
State cookie	Bizcochito	1989
State insect	Tarantula wasp	1989
State ballad	Land of Enchantment, Spanish: Tierra del Encanto, or Tierra Encantada	1989
State poem	Spanish: A Nuevo México, To New Mexico	1991
State question *	"Red or Green?"	1999
State Tie	Bolo tie	2007
State ship	USS New Mexico (BB-40)	1918–1946
	USS New Mexico (SSN-779)	2008
State amphibian	New Mexico spadefoot toad	2003
State butterfly	Sandia hairstreak	2003
State aircraft	Hot air balloon, symbol of Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta	2005
State cowboy song	Under New Mexico Skies	2009

(*)The official state question refers to a question commonly heard at restaurants, where waiters will ask customers "red or green?" in reference to which kind of chili pepper or "chile sauce" the customers wants served with their meal. This type of "chile" is usually distinct from salsa, as the chile sauce is much finer and thicker and more commonly served with meals. Natives are more likely to refer to the chili sauce put on their meal as just plain "chile", and not as any form of "salsa" (which is usually reserved by natives in English for the salsa served with chips; everything else is just "chile").

Further reading

• "State Symbols". New Mexico Blue Book 2007–2008. New Mexico Secretary of State. pp. 73–96. http://web.archive.org/web/20090325035746/http://www.sos.state.nm.us/BlueBook2008/StateSymbols.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-16.  (PDF: archived copy from Internet Archive)