Iowa State Flower - The Wild Rose

The Wild Rose has five pink petals with a large yellow center. Zoom in to see my detailed pen work on the petals and leaves.

When I did the research for this state flower collection I looked up the statues and resolutions that designated the official flowers. 

During my research I found an interesting Fun Floral Fact - Iowa's official resolution included a poem called the Rose of Iowa written by S.H.M. Byers. Here's how the poem appears in the resolution.

THE ROSE OF IOWA.
    [Copyright applied for by S. H. M. Byers.]

    Hast seen the wild rose of the West,
        The sweetest child of morn?
    Its feet the dewy fields have pressed,
         Its breath is on the corn.

    The gladsome prairie rolls and sweeps
        Like billows to the sea,
    While on its breast the red rose keeps
        The white rose company.

    The wild, wild rose whose fragrance dear
       To every breeze is flung,
    The same wild rose that blossomed here
        When Iowa was young.

    O, sons of heroes ever wear
        The wild rose on your shield,
    No other flower is half so fair
       In loves immortal field.

    Let others sing of mountain snows,
        Or palms beside the sea,
    The state whose emblem is the rose
        Is fairest far to me.

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