Poinsettia- Legend has it that a poor, young girl in Mexico was on her way to Christmas eve mass. She had nothing to bring to the Christ child. So, she picked some green plants along the side of the road. When she arrived at the church, the plants had burst into beautiful red blooms. You guessed it, she was carrying Poinsettias. In the 1800s, U.S.Ambassador Joel Roberts Poinsett, brought the plants back with him to the U.S. He gave the plants, which would come to be named after him, as a gift to family and friends.