Plant names and their meanings

Here's a few off the top of my head for anyone who'd interested.

Iris - Greek goddess of rainbow

Narcissus - an ancient Greek hunter knows for his beauty, fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water (nodding downtunlrned heads of daffodils) and depending on your preferred myth killed himself because he couldn't touch that which he thought was so beautiful or simply sat by the pool entranced by his own beauty until he died.

Gladiolus - Latin, diminutive form of gladius (gladiator) meaning sword.

Hyacinth- hyacinths was a spartan prince and lover of apollo. Apollo and hyacinths were playing quoits one day when zephyrus (God of west winds) was jealous of their love as he fancied hyacinths too. He blew apollos discus off course and it struck and killed hyacinthus. Apollo formed the flower hyacinth out of hyacinthus spilt blood and wrote the word "Al Al" (alas) on the petals.