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Azcaxochitl.

Headword: 
Azcaxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; e.g. the daughter of the lord Pochotl and the lady Huitziltzilin; granddaughter of the ruler Topiltzin; raised secretly in Tlaximaloyan; married Nopaltzin (son of Xolotl)
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 18.

Frances Karttunen: 

a type of flowering plant associated with ants, one of several different plants known as 'lirio' [in Spanish]

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Azcaxochitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

This flowering plant apparently has an association with ants, and it is one of several plants called in Spanish, lirio ("lily" in English).
Frances Karttunen, quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, by Wimmer 2004, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/azcaxochitl/41698

themes: 
Names (for people, deities)
See also: 
Azcatl Xochitzin.