I think it hasn’t been mentioned and is one of my favorite flowers: Green Dragon - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/84261-Arisaema-dracontium
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# Dierama - Fairies Fishing Rod
Thismia rodwayi Fairy Lantern
Dracaena cinnabari (Dragon Blood Tree).
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Make a separate topic for it. 
These ones i think you are referring to
Another insect with a fairy tale esque is the giant willow tree aphid. I’m not sure if this fits though.
Black Maidenhair Fern
Black Witches’ Butter
Dryad (butterfly)
Wood-Nymphs
There are quite a lot of butterflies with “satyr” in their name but they aren’t related so I can’t give you the genus like with the Wood-Nymphs. These are a few where the first part of the name is a bonus:
Gemmed Satyr
Moon Satyr
Little Wood Satyr
Hermes Satyr
White-bar Mountain Satyr
White-banded Mountain Satyr
Ox-eyed Satyr
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The Southern Appalachians have a few to offer as well. Some that I’ve run across are Fairybells, Fairy Wand, Unicorn Root, and Devil’s Walking Stick.
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Also…
Jeweled Satyr Moth
Cinderella Orchids
Wood-Candle
Elfin Skimmer
Forest Elfin
Dark Elfin
Bog Elfin
Elfin Shoes
Rock Harlequin (Capnoides sempervirens)
Assassin Spiders (Archaeidae)
Ogre-faced Spiders (Deinopidae)
Goblin Spiders (Oonopidae)
Cave Robber Spiders (Trogloraptor)
Ghost Spiders (Anyphaenidae)
Labyrinth Orb-weaver (Metepeira labyrinthea)
Sorting Hat Spider (Eriovixia gryffindori)
Pirate Wolf Spiders (Pirata)
Joro Spider (Trichonephila clavata)
Rabid Wolf Spider (Rabidosa rabida)
Guardstone Spiders (Phrurolithidae)
Robber Spiders (Argyrodes)
Widow Spiders (Latrodectus)
Arizona Black Hole Spider (Kukulcania arizonica)
Ungoliant (Amphiledorus ungoliantae, Ochyrocera ungoliant, & Nemesia ungoliant)
Tolkien (Drassodella tolkieni)
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Sword Wolf Spiders
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/172525-Gladicosa
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I’m surprised nobody mentioned what to me is an obvious one:
Shepherd’s Purse
If we go with names that are not iNaturalist standard ones, we can have many more possibilities:
What iNat calls Bog St. John’s Wort is also called Tinker’s Penny
Cuckoo-pint is also known as Lords-and-Ladies
Some of the Archaeoprepona butteflies are elsewhere called Shoemakers
The Clustered Lady’s Slipper is also the Brownie Lady’s Slipper
But it wouldn’t really work to add those to the list, since their fairytale names would not be shown. So from here on, I will stick to those which will show correctly on iNat.
There is a butterfly called simply the Knight
The orchid genus Oberonia is named after Oberon, the fairy-king from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And if we are going to mention Oberon, we must of course also mention Titania’s Fritillary. Not to mention the genus Puck
And this one may not seem fairytale-like at first glance, but Fadus Sphinx – since Fada is Spanish for fairy, I can think of Fadus as the masculine form; a male fay-creature.
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Satyrium (Satyr Orchids).
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned fairy moths yet - tiny gorgeous little metallic moths in the genus Adela.
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Coincidence, yesterday I saw a Tortyra moth and I thought it looked just like a fairy!
Also Lanceolate Spiders (Schizocoza), though I think iNat is using Brush-legged for the genus and that might be a reach. And just stumbled across Aragog (Lycosa aragogi), named for a giant spider from the Harry Potter series.
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Painted jezebel butterfly (Delias hyparete)
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Ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)
Enchanter’s nightshade (Circaea)
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Why didn’t I think of this one before? Ladies’ tresses (Genus Spiranthes).
Which reminds me that Campanula rapunculus, called Rampion on iNat, is also known as Rapunzel.
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