Palmetto flag \Pal*met"to flag\
Any of several flags adopted by South Carolina after its
secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green
cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final
one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a
blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand
corner.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]