| ISATIS | Flowering plant whose genus includes woad (6) |
| TOMATO | Berry of a plant whose genus Solanum, meaning "nightshade", includes aubergines and potatoes (6) |
| CELERY | Name, from the ancient Greek for "parsley", for a plant whose genus Apium aptly hints at its bee-attracting white flowers, whilst its crisp leaf-stalks are used for mirepoix, salads and children's "an |
| ALLIUM | Flowering plant whose species include onions and shallots (6) |
| ASTERS | Flowering plants whose name comes from the Greek for star (6) |
| IRISES | Flowering plants whose types include bearded, yellow and Siberian (6) |
| SOLLYA | Twining perennial climbers; genus includes bluebell creeper (6) |
| ARALIA | A member of the ivy family, this genus includes the Japanese angelica tree (6) |
| NERINE | - bowdenii; flower whose genus is named after the Greek sea nymphs (6) |
| SCOTER | Often bobbing offshore in a "raft", a mussel-eating sea coot whose genus Melanitta means "black duck" (6) |
| BUMBLE | Word that links with "puppy" for the archaic game nineholes or "bee" for the insect whose genus Bombus means "booming" or "buzzing" (6) |
| MAYFLY | A "green-drake" whose genus name, Ephemera, means "short lived" or "lasting only a day" (6) |
| GODWIT | A wader of marsh, mire, mudflat or water meadow, whose genus, Limosa, suitably translates as "muddy" (6) |
| NUTRIA | Spanish word for an otter, which is used to refer to the orange-toothed coypu whose genus, Myocastor, means "mouse beaver" or, its fur (6) |
| AVOCET | Name of a black-and-white long-legged wading bird whose genus, Recurvirostra, refers to its recurved or upturned bill (6) |
| INDIGO | Architect Jones pocketing penny for product of woad (6) |
| PASTEL | The woad plant |
| KENDAL | Town from which mint cake and also forester's cloth coloured with dyer's-greenweed and woad derive (6) |
| RAGWEED | Flowering plant whose pollen is highly allergenic |
| PELARGONIUM | Flowering plant whose leaves yield an essential oil (11) |
