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On this day in 1892 at the annual meeting of the Oregon Horticultural Society at Hood River, a committee formed two years earlier to nominate a state flower suggested several flowers, among them the Oregon Grape. Upon the motion of George H. Himes, the Oregon Grape was named Oregon State Flower. A native shrub of the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Grape thrives in the mountains and along timbered valley streams. Its rugged evergreen foliage closely resembles holly, but with berries that are a bright purple.
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