flag of West Virginia
United States state flag
U.S. state flag consisting of a white field (background) bordered in blue and featuring a coat of arms in the centre.Around the coat of arms is a wreath of the big laurel (Rhododendron maximum), which was designated the state flower in 1903. The following year the big laurel was featured on the obverse side of a flag made to represent West Virginia at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in St. Louis, Missouri. The flag was white with a blue border, and the state coat of arms—part of the state seal designed by Joseph H.D. Debar and adopted in 1863—appeared on ...(100 of 280 words)