| TEASEL | Fuller's - - - - - -, dipsacus having flower heads within hooked bracts (6) |
| OXEYE | Variety of daisy having flower heads with striated rays and dark centres (5) |
| AFFECT | Touch iron club head within a foot (6) |
| RACEME | Inflorescence having flowers springing from a central stem, as in the hyacinth (6) |
| FLORAL | Having flowers (6) |
| ORCHID | Terrestrial or epiphytic plant often having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colours (6) |
| PROTEA | Genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern Africa grown for their colourful bracts and dense flower heads (6) |
| FUHRER | Stella leaves out fuller's earth for German dictator (6) |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| LEAVES | Cactus spines and flower bracts are modified _. |
| SCRAPS | Buckminster Fuller's '30s concept car |
| SESELI | Genus of over 100 herbaceous perennial plants of the Umbelliferae family whose umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent |
| CUPULE | From "cask, tub", a botanical word for the small woody thimble- or teabowl-like domed bract holding the smooth oval nut of an acorn (6) |
| MASTERY | The writer's having flower within grasp |
| OBSTRUCTS | Prevents Russian flower arrangements having flower missing |
| NARCISSUS | Mythological youth reflected on having flower named after him (9) |
| UMBELLATE | Of a plant, having flower clusters in which stalks spring from a centre (9) |
| TEAZLES | Wild plants of the genus Dipsacus, much loved by goldfinches (7) |
| REACHING | Contacting a head within cartel (8) |
| GROUNDSHEET | Welcome dogs with lowered head within tarpaulin (11) |
