Local Names for wildflowers

This might not work as a thread but lets give it a go, i'll start us off,

Arum Maculatum,

Down here some call them "Dogs Dickies"

Whats your local names ?

 

When I was a child we called Umbelifloras Dogs Flourish because we thought they grew where the dogs had pooed.

 

Lords and ladies round our way don't know why

 

Couldn't find a reference about why they came to be called that but did find an interesting page on the origin of the words

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/lord_lady.htm

I liked the bit about the Garden too, a place you guard plants.

 

I remember being told by one of my old tutor's that it was just the Victorians renaming plants which they thought had rather vulgar names at which point he'd give you a run down of some of his favourites including "Prick on a Plate" for Arum Maculatum


on another note on the Isle of Wight Centranthus rubra commonly known as Red Valerian is in fact called Ventnor Pride

 

They changed the name of a street in Merriott, Somerset to Shutter Oak, thereby hiding its true former purpose.

 

We called Dandelions Pee the beds. Suppose it refers to the diuretic properties of the plant.
Maybe the name is universal - the French certainly use it.