This stunner unfortunately doesn’t have one good common name. Its botanical is stromanthe sanguinea ‘Triostar’ (or sometimes variegata). I have seen it called Persian Shield, but not often, and I have also seen it called Tricolor Prayer Plant, which is even more misleading, because it does not belong to the calathea/maranta genus which are usually called “prayer plants.” So feel free to come up with some good common name yourself.
I say it’s “holiday worthy” of course because of the colorations in the leaves. I suppose it could easily be be gifted around Valentine’s Day as well for the same reason. This photo shows the nice maroon stems fairly well. I didn’t capture the maroon undersides of the leaves though. It really is a stunner of a plant!
For me, I grow it in an east or west exposure–where ever I have more room in a given season. I have had this plant for several years and it hasn’t grown very much (and I like that in a plant sometimes)–many of my plants are outgrowing my house!
In the summer, I put it outside under a dogwood that throws fairly dense shade. Despite the outside/inside routine for at least 3 or 4 years, it has never had an insect problem.
In my cooler house, it only needs water once a week. Outside, it might get watered every day, depending on temperatures.
I definitely can recommend this as a plant. As I often say–what’s not to like?
Gardendaze 
When we were in school, some plants were described as having ‘no common name’ or ‘NCN’. When studying such plants, the ‘NCN’ just let us know that they had only a Latin name, and that we were not missing anything by not seeing a common name there. Nomenclature is SO complicated nowadays!
I like the idea of “NCN.” And you’re not kidding about nomenclature! Remember what they did to chrysanthemums a few years back?
Karla