how is Lewisia and Heliconia connected?
Lewisia Lewisia is a plant genus, named for Meriwether Lewis who encountered the species in 1806. The native habitat of "Lewisia" species is north facing cliffs in the western part of North America. Local Native Americans ate the roots, which have also been used to treat sore throats.
Thalia (nymph) In Greek mythology, Thalia (Greek: Θάλεια "Tháleia" or Θάλια "Thália", "the Joyous, the Flourishing", from θάλλειν / thállein, "to flourish, to be green") is a nymph, the child of Hephaestus. She is also given as an anthropomorphic secondary deity of plant life and shoots, possibly as the culmination of the transmission of knowledge on volcanic ash's use as a fertiliser, characteristic of ancient viticulture in volcanic soils such as those of the island of Santorini.