| KNAPWEED | A thistle-like flowering plant found on grasslands (8) |
| BURGUNDY | Duke of ____, small orange brown butterfly found on grassland and woodland clearings (8) |
| PLAINSAILING | Easy progress, but suffering on grasslands (5,7) |
| ARUM | Lily-like flowering plant (4) |
| RESTIO | Genus of tufted rush-like flowering plant - I store untidily (6) |
| ARTICHOKE | A thistle-like plant cultivated for its large edible flower head containing many fleshy scale-like b |
| CARDOON | A thistle-like plant related to the globe artichoke, with leaves used as a vegetable |
| STEMMED | Held back - like flowering plants, perhaps? (7) |
| EDELWEISS | A small white flowering plant found in the high Alps (9) |
| SHRUB | Flowering plant found in rubbish? Rubbish! (5) |
| DESERTLILY | Hesperocallis undulata, flowering plant found in arid areas of southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico (6,4) |
| SCOTLAND | Country with a thistle as its official floral emblem (8) |
| RARECOIN | A thistle merk, perhaps, or a nicer variant (4,4) |
| SEAPOPPY | Wild pea in mushy plant found on sandy shores (3,5) |
| BERKHEYA | Genus of thistle-like plant in Aster family - a key herb sort (8) |
| COMPLAIN | Grouse nearly arrived on grassland (8) |
| UNCOMMON | Remarkable Gallic figure on grassland |
| COCKSPUR | Maltese ?, European plant of the daisy family with yellow thistle-like flower heads (8) |
| PAINTEDLADY | Name, with an onus on multicolouredness, as if brushed or dipped in a palette of pigments, for a thistle butterfly, a tattooed woman, a scarlet "prairie-fire" American wildflower or a variegated gladi |
| CHOKE | Valve in a carburettor; or, the inedible mass at the centre of a thistle used as a vegetable (5) |
