| STARTHISTLE | Plant of the genus Centaurea with spiny purplish flower heads |
| KNAPWEED | Herbaceous plant of the genus Centaurea having purplish thistlelike flowers (8) |
| ACANTHUS | Mediterranean genus of plants with spiny leaves and white or purplish flowers (8) |
| ABELIA | Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers. |
| CORN | In this cereal, sweet is maize, and the flower is Centaurea cyanus! (4) |
| TEASEL | Plant with spiny purple flower heads |
| HOUSE | Orange, say, ending on purplish flower (5) |
| VIOLET | Purplish flower? I've lot requiring cultivation (6) |
| YUCCA | Stiff-leaved plant with spikes of white or purplish flowers (5) |
| WILLOWHERB | Plant such as the rosebay ? or denseflower ? with pink or purplish flowers (10) |
| CORNFLOWERS | Blue-petalled "hurtsickles" or "bachelor's-buttons" of wheatfields or meadows, whose Latin designation, Centaurea cyanus, refers to said blooms' legendary use as healing herbs by the centaur Chiron (1 |
| SWEETSULTAN | Common name for the annual Amberoa moschata, formerly Centaurea moschata (5,6) |
| CORNFLOWER | Eurasian plant, Centaurea cyanus, also called bluebottle (10) |
| LILAC | Purplish flower or colour (5) |
| ASTER | Purplish flower |
| SNAPDRAGON | Plant with spikes of showy white, yellow, pink, red or purplish flowers, also called antirrhinum (10) |
| BOGBEAN | Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves. |
| HEATHER | Plant blanketing moorlands with tiny purplish flowers or "bells" eaten by red grouse; or, a variety of blended or variegated wool yarn (7) |
| MANDRAKE | Eurasian plant with purplish flowers (8) |
| LIATRIS | North American plants with long spikes of purplish flowers. (7) |
