Better yet, in French it’s called oeillet de poète, “poet’s carnation.”
Vincent Gardenia
Especially Sweet Sue.
Petersilie
This is the German name for Parsley
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Well, “Roosevelt” itself comes from the Dutch for “rose field”, so the flower is still involved, just further back.
There’s a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT named Woody Flowers.
There’s also Herbie Flowers, who wrote and played the bass line for Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side”.
I knew a man whose first name was Lotus. Unsurprisingly, he went by the name of Bud and said he had to fight every boy in school at least once.He’s gone now but would be in his late 80’s if he were still with us.
Saxifrage Russell is a male scientist in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I think that name is hot and is the least girly pretty flower name I have ever heard of.
Jack-in-the-pulpit.
Peter Yarrow.
I have a friend from Bosnia named Jasmin. Not sure if the name is related to the flower, though. It might just be a coincidence.
I have a male cousin named Sequoia. (His sister is named Willow, and his daughter is named Bodhi. Why yes, that is the hippie branch of the family, can you tell?)
(No, that’s not a flower. But all the other Sequoias I’ve known have been female.)
There is also a Sweet William/Blue Phlox. 