Jul 16, 2023
To:minatika
Well spotted! She's indirectly named for the flowers via The Witch of Atlas, by Percy Shelley.
"And when the whirlwinds and the clouds descended
From the white pinnacles of that cold hill,
She passed at dewfall to a space extended,
Where in a lawn of flowering asphodel
Amid a wood of pines and cedars blended,
There yawned an inextinguishable well
Of crimson fire--full even to the brim,
And overflowing all the margin trim."