Riveris's list "Flower names (obscure)" of 20 great name ideas: Sanvitalia - Aquilegia!

Flower names (obscure)

Names missing from the official Nameberry flower name list.  Some are missing from Nameberry itself.  Neat.

Sanvitalia

Crossandra

Aglaonema

Dipradenia

Saxifraga

Alcea

Scaevola

Draceana

Eugenia, a name scarcely used at all since the 1980's, is another that flourished a century ago and could be due for a revival.
 Eugenia has some interesting literary references, including the fascinating Baroness Eugenie Munster in Henry James's The Europeans and Eugenia Alabaster, a leading character in A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects, and it was also the birth name of Skeeter in the book and film The Help.
 The third century St. Eugenia, an early Roman Christian martyr, is remembered for disguising herself as a man to escape persecution.
 Music lovers will be familiar with the name of renowned flute virtuoso Eugenia Zukerman.

Flower names (obscure)

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Sanvitalia

Crossandra

Aglaonema

Dipradenia

Saxifraga

Alcea

Scaevola

Draceana

Eugenia

Alstroemeria

Scaevola

Gaura

Amsonia

Scalora

Gazania

Sennetti

Angelonia

Gerbera

Somphrenia

Aquilegia