baby blue-eyes—a delicate California herb (Nemophila menziesii) having blue flowers with dark spots:
- Baby Blue Eyes. This beautiful porcelain blue flower is as delicate as its name.
blue-eyed babies—the plants Houstonia patens and Houstonia caerulea:
- The names for the starry Houstonia are so charming one scarcely knows which to choose. Blue-eyed Babies, Quaker Ladies, Angel Eyes…
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase blue-eyed boys—people singled out for special favors by smb. in authority:
- During this difficult period, farmers were “blue-eyed boys.”