| GREENDRAGON | North American perennial plant of the arum family with a very long white spadix (5,6) |
| PHLOX | North American perennial plant with pale blue, violet, pink or white flowers (5) |
| ERIOPHYLLUM | Genus of north American perennials in the daisy family, with the common name of woolly sunflower (11) |
| TWEEDIA | Commonname of a South American perennial with sky-blue flowers - partly rampant weed, I admit (7) |
| TARO | Food plant of the arum family with starchy tubers, popular in Pacific Islands (4) |
| REDHOTPOKER | Tall perennial plant of the genus Kniphofia with spikes of drooping red or orange flowers (3-3,5) |
| AROID | Common name for a flowering plant in the arum family (with flowers borne on a spadix) (5) |
| GROUNDELDER | Perennial plant of the parsley family also called goutweed (6,5) |
| CHICAGOCUBS | Professional sports team with a very long championship drought (100+ years) |
| EARLYAUGHTS | Genus of small perennial plants of the campanula family, having various common names including silvery dwarf harebell, wheel bell, rock bell or grassy bell (11) |
| EDDO | Plant of the arum family, also called taro, widely cultivated in the islands of the Pacific for its edible rootstock |
| JACK | Flowering plant of the arum family, - - in the pulpit (4) |
| CALLALOO | Plant of the arum family whose leaves are used in Caribbean cooking (8) |
| CUCKOOPINT | European plant of the arum family also called lords and ladies (6,4) |
| JACKINTHEPULPIT | Plant of the arum family |
| CALLA | Flower-bearing plant of the Arum family |
| LORDSANDLADIES | Plant of the arum family also known as cuckoopint |
| SKUNKCABBAGE | Foul-smelling plant of the arum family (5,7) |
| AROIDS | Plants in the Arum family with spadices and spathes - so arid, maybe (6) |
| SPATHE | Large sheathing bract enclosing the spadix (inflorescence) of plants in the arum family (Araceae) (6) |
