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Ivy is used as a name by people who have never had to remove an actual ivy plant. It is without exception the most annoying vegetable in the known universe, and if that wasn't bad enough, it starts with that raving-egomaniacal I.
Violet, shrinking and shy and half-hidden from the eye thanks to mossy stones and its own leaves. What an image! Older family members have assured me that all the Violets they knew when it was first fashionable were or became large, stout, flat-footed and domineering, no doubt as a reaction.
Daisy! Proverbially fresh, pretty and bright and sunshine personified! Oh yes, I'd use Daisy any day. And it was Chaucer's favourite flower, and he was a man of taste ...