In 2020, Salt Lake City unveiled a new flag after a municipal contest that drew hundreds of proposals. The winning design, nicknamed the "Sego Flag," features two horizontal bands, blue on top, white below, with a white sego lily in the upper canton.
The sego lily (Calochortus nuttallii) holds a special place in Utah's history. In 1848, as the first Mormon settlers faced famine after swarms of crickets devoured their crops, they survived by eating the bulbs of this wild flower. The sego lily became Utah's state flower in 1911, a symbol of survival and adaptation.
It is a clean, modern design, far from the complex municipal seal that had adorned the old flag since 1969.
Salt Lake City, capital of Utah and world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, chose a flag that speaks of pioneer heritage but looks to the future. In 2025, the city even added official variants, the "Belonging Flag" and the "Celebration Flag", showing that a flag can be living, evolving, inclusive.