| ALGAE | Plants with no roots or leaves |
| AUTOFACTORY | Plant with no roots |
| NOMAD | One with no roots |
| COSMO | Name for flowering plant with no root (5) |
| DESERTS | Leaves wild reeds and plants with no system (7) |
| THUMP | Has no roots in Portsmouth or Knock (5) |
| AIRPLANT | Greenery with few to no roots |
| HARVESTS | Crops very restricted by rushes, plants with no plan (8) |
| CROC | Plants with no uses for carnivore (4) |
| ENDOSPERM | Nutritive matter for plants with no premeds... (9) |
| FERNS | Green plants with no flowers |
| HERBAL | Relating to plants with no exposed woody stem (6) |
| FERN | Plant with no flowers or seeds |
| SPICE | Derived from bark, buds, fruits, roots or stigmas, a seasoning such as cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, pepper or saffron; or, by extension, anything that adds interest or zest (5) |
| ANEMONE | Plant with no name, surprisingly English (7) |
| ORIGINS | Roots or source of inspiration with spirits (7) |
| ORTHODONTIA | It had no root, surprisingly, as a branch of dentistry |
| STOLONS | Creeping roots or runners of plants including mint, strawberry, sweet violet, a species of buttercup clover, bugle and lamb's ears (7) |
| PHLOEM | From "bark" and key to supersize pumpkins, tissue/bast that conducts photosynthesised sugars and other metabolites downwards from a plant's leaves to its fruits, roots or tubers (6) |
| SEEDS | Grains, ovules or pips for sowing - the origins, roots or starts of apples, offspring and sunflowers, as well as ideas and Wimbledon favourites (5) |
