DISTRICT FLOWER
The District of Columbia's Flower: American Beauty Rose
The American Beauty rose represents the District of Columbia — a deep pink, heavily fragrant bloom that opens each spring.
A Rose Bred for Its Fragrance
The American Beauty rose is prized above all for its strong, sweet scent, layered with dozens of densely packed petals in a rich pink hue. It was long a favorite florist's rose for formal bouquets, and its association with elegance made it a fitting emblem for the nation's capital.
QUICK FACT
The American Beauty rose became so closely tied to Gilded Age high society that it lent its name to a much-discussed strain of hybrid tea roses bred in the decades that followed.
