| ASTERACEAE | A large, widespread family of flowering plants, including the daisy (10) |
| LINACEAE | A family of flowering plants, including the genus Linum (8) |
| RHODOCHITON | Genus of flowering plants, including the purple bell vine, in the diascia and nemesia family (11) |
| ELAPIDAE | Widespread family of venomous snakes that includes the cobra, mamba, taipan etc. (8) |
| SMASHHIT | Principle of homotopy in applied maths is a huge, widespread success (5,3) |
| RHOEADALES | Order of flowering plants, including poppies (10) |
| BROMELIADS | Family of flowering plants mainly native to the tropical Americas, named in honour of a Swedish botanist (10) |
| PEA | A family of plants including the garden Pisum sativum; a seed of the latter, eaten as a vegetable or blown through a shooter; or, a tiny cob of coal, coffee berry, roe of salmon or stone, when akin to |
| ORCHID | Common name of a family of flowering plants with a species resembling a bee (6) |
| VERONICA | Genus of flowering plants including speedwell (8) |
| ERICA | Genus of flowering plant including heathers (5) |
| MANDRAGORA | Genus of plants including mandrake (10) |
| DAISY | Common name of the largest family of flowering plants - chrysanthemums, dahlias, dandelions, camomile, marigolds and lettuces all being members (5) |
| FIGWORT | Family of flowering plants that includes the Ningpo ? and Mimbres ? (7) |
| ACERACEAE | Formerly recognised family of flowering plants to which the maples belonged; order, Sapindales (9) |
| EBENACEAE | Family of flowering plants in the order Ericales which includes persimmon (9) |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| SIDA | Sharing a Greek root with pomegranate and water lily, a genus of malvaceous plants including the bala, country mallow and fanpetal (4) |
| SEDUM | Genus of succulent plants including the stonecrops and the 'jelly bean plant' (5) |
| AMARANTHACEAE | Family of flowering plants which include love-lies-bleeding and pigweed (13) |
