I do realize that some botanical names have a real meaning or reasoning but being friends with many iris hybridizers I know very well the names they choose may mean something to them or nothing at all. I have helped find names for a couple of hybridizers. Sometimes it can be quite a challenge as for Iris names, you must hunt through all the Registration checklists to make sure the name hasn't already been used, make sure you are not offending a good friend by using a name that would fit a series he or she considers theirs, etc. I have all the iris checklists books and spent a couple of months looking up names daily for a friend until he found and settled on a name to be used on a new Louisiana Iris he introduced. Many are named after a friend or relative of the hybridizer naming them. Knowing the hybridizers I realize sometimes the names they choose fit what is going on in their lives at the time. This would not be obvious to people who don't know them. Carolyn