The official state flower of North Dakota is the wild prairie rose. The flower sports five bright pink petals with a tight cluster of yellow stamens in the center. The state rose grows along roadsides, in pastures and in native meadows.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition encountered their first grizzly (brown) bears in North Dakota.
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Dakota Gasification Company in Beulah, North Dakota is the nation's only synthetic natural gas producer.