aubreykm's list "Not Your Grandma's Flower Names" of 12 great name ideas: Freesia - Verbena!

Not Your Grandma's Flower Names

Yes, yes we know Rose, Lily, and Violet; but what else? A lot of these names are taken from the Latin or Greek scientific names, so the meanings can vary and be quite complex. If your Grandma *is* named one of these...Good for her!

A rare, free-feeling flower name for the parent who wants to move far, far beyond Rose and Daisy. Named for German physician Friedrich Freese.

Freesia

Fuschia

Like Violet, Lavender and Lilac, Ianthe is a purple flower name.  Chosen by the poet Shelley for his daughter, Ianthe has a poetic, romantic, almost ethereal quality.  In the ancient myth, she was the daughter of Oceanus, supreme ruler of the sea, and also a Cretan woman so beautiful that when she died the Gods made purple flowers grow around her grave.
<br/><br/>Iantha is also used.
<br/><br/>Ianthe was a favorite of the pastoral poets of the seventeenth century and then again in the early nineteenth. She appears in the works of Shelley, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer.  Writer Richard Brautigan named his daughter Ianthe.

Not Your Grandma's Flower Names

Freesia

Fuschia

Ianthe

Ionantha

Lavandula

Lepanthes

Nymanina

Orchidea

Passiflora

Persica

Plumeria

Verbena