Apart of Erica Catherine's US State Flower Collection, the Rose Flower represents the State of New York. The well known Rose flower is shown on top of a green color background.

The Rose was adopted as New York's state flower in 1955. Schoolchildren voted for the Rose to be their state flower in 1890, however it wasn't made official until almost 70 years later! Not wanting to pick favorites among this wonderful collection of flowers they said that roses "in any color or combination of colors common to it" are considered the state flower. The rose is symbolic of love and beauty all over the world. There are over 150 species and more than 20,000 hybrid roses taking the spot as the most widely popular and cultivated flowers in the world. The rose is one of the oldest flowers. Roses cultivation goes back at least 5,00 years and fossils up to 35 million years old have been discovered.

Inspired by the natural and antique details that call to Erica's Old soul, she aims to bring that special spirit to all of her designs. Each drawing is created by hand using a mixture of graphite drawing with watercolor layering over the top to create the ethereal and vintage inspired work that harks back to turn of the century botanical illustration.