The Wyoming chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution supported the Indian paintbrush as Wyoming’s state flower. But Dr. Grace R. Hebard gets most of the credit for its adoption. She drafted the state flower bill and found a legislator willing to sponsor it.
Hebard even commissioned a New York artist to paint the Indian paintbrush, so that legislators would know what it looks like. The Indian paintbrush was adopted on January 31, 1917
