What’s in a Name?

The Stage Coach was recently inspired to start a new series of posts based around Street Names in the Austin Metro Area, having recently seen several streets that made him wonder, “Where did this word come from?” and “Why on Earth would you name a street that?”  For fun, we’ll be posting street names in neighborhoods we visit, researching the etymological roots, pointing out historical importance, or just plain making fun of them.

Several weeks ago, we visited a home in S.W. Austin, in the Meridian Subdivision, called: Alophia.

According to Wikipedia,
Alophia is a small genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). The genus comprise five species that occur from center and southern North America to Brazil and Argentina. The genus is closely related to Herbertia, Cypella and Tigridia, differentiating from them by some characters of the stamen and the gynoecium. The genus name is derived from the Greek words a-, meaning “without”, and lophos, meaning “crest”.

Alophia
Meaning: Without a crest
Latin Pronunciation: a-LOW-fee-uh

Alophia drummondii is the full name of Propeller Flower.

Jeff McMillian @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Courtesy of Almost Eden. United States, LA.

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