McQuarrie Memorial Museum, 145 North 100 East, St. George, UT 84770 ~ 435-628-7274
Museum is open daily except Wednesday, Sunday, Holidays and December (entire month)
Hours:  Nov, Jan, Feb - 12:30 PM to 4 PM
             Mar, April, May, Sept, Oct - 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Jun, Jul, Aug - 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM
************************************************************************************************

The Sego Lily is the Utah State flower but the Daughter of Utah Pioneers use it to represent the strength and sacrifices the pioneers had to endure through many years of hardship in establishing their communities.

Kate C. Carter, President of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in a letter to George Earlie Shankle, written from Salt Lake City, dated April 17, 1930 says in part that,

"between 1847 and 1851, food became very scarce in Utah due to a crop-devouring plague of crickets, and that the families were put on rations, and during this time they learned to dig for and to eat the soft, bulbous root of the Sego Lily. The memory of this use, quite as much as the natural beauty of the flower, caused it to be selected in 1911 by the Legislature as the floral emblem of the state."