Senator William B. Dean offers a resolution in the Minnesota Senate recommending that the "wild lady-slipper or moccasin flower, Cypripedium calceolus, be named the state flower." The resolution is later adopted by both Senate and House. Following the discovery that this species of lady slipper does not grow in Minnesota, a new resolution would be adopted in 1902, changing the state flower to the pink-and-white lady slipper (Cypripedium reginae).