Brodiaea capitata's common name is blue dicks. Thrives in poor soils, summer-baked locations. Pretty spring flowers for sunny banks. You could also have naked ladies cavorting in the garden. That is the common name for Amaryllis belladonna, being so named because in the late summer reddish naked stalks emerge from a fat bulb that produces trumpet-shaped fragrant pink flowers.
Foliage appears after bloom.
There are whimsical garden terms, too. Cuckoo spittle is an old-fashioned name for the froth the spittle bug leaves on a plant. Old timers used to think it was frog spit. The lilly pilly tree has a fanciful, Dr. Seuss-like ring to it, far more colorful than its Latin name, Eugenia smithii. Gardeners have also named certain plants, or weeds, after notable people.