| TEASEL | Prickly flower of a plant in the honeysuckle family with beauty bush and seablush (6) |
| HONEYSUCKLE | Fragrant woodbine Lonicera of cottage gardens, hedgerows and woodland that shares its family with the beauty bush, pincushion flower, snowberry and seablush (11) |
| ABELIA | Genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family such as the Chinese _ (6) |
| SCABIOUS | Plant in the honeysuckle family, also called pincushion flower (8) |
| POMPON | From the Old French for "knot of ribbons", a tufted ball or bobble of silk or wool; a cluster of tinsel for cheerleading; or, a globe-like flower of a chrysanthemum or dahlia (6) |
| LEGUME | Seed of a plant in the pea family such as a chickpea, lentil, bean or peanut (6) |
| POTATO | Selenium-rich berry/fruit of a plant in the nightshade family (6) |
| TEAZEL | Plant with a prickly flower head used for teasing cloth (6) |
| COMPOSITE | Botanical description of a flower of a plant in the aster family such as that of the daisy, dandelion or chamomile (9) |
| ECESIS | The establishment of a plant in a new environment |
| DANUBE | A blue flower of a noted variety (6) |
| ROSE | Flower of a plant related to apples; a diamond cut with facets mimicking said bloom's petals; a soft pink colour; a knot of ribbon on a shoe; or, a marigold window or oeil-de-boeuf (4) |
| GUELDERROSE | A deciduous shrub of the honeysuckle family with creamy-white flowers |
| SNOWBERRY | North American shrub of the honeysuckle family with small pink flowers and white berries (9) |
| LILACS | Titular flowers of a Louisa May Alcott children's book |
| ELDERS | Honeysuckle family members |
| ELDER | Shrub in the honeysuckle family, its berries are used to make wine |
| CLOVE | Segment of a bulb of garlic; or, the unopened flower bud of a plant in the myrtle family used as an aromatic spice to flavour ginger cake or pumpkin pie (5) |
| LILIPAD | Leaf of a plant in the family Nymphaeaceae, depicted in a series of paintings by Claude Monet such a |
| THISTLE | Traditionally depicted on shortbread rounds and their tins, a prickly flower used as a national emblem of Scotland and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (7) |
