Is that so? I would have imagined tenacity would be more important for any sort of plant than beauty or brains. Better for survival when you're rooted down, you know?

[...Unless they've somehow wandered into using flowers as metaphors for people when he wasn't looking. Then being at least clever enough to know when to retreat is generally necessary if one doesn't have a minder. But if not-]

But I'm no expert on flowers, so you may be right.