| GLADIOLI | Plants with spikes of brightly coloured funnel-shaped flowers (8) |
| PETUNIA | Plant with brightly coloured funnel-shaped flowers (7) |
| REDHOTPOKER | Plant with spikes of brightly coloured flowers (3-3,5) |
| LUPIN | Garden plant with spikes of brightly coloured flowers (5) |
| LARKSPUR | Any of various plants with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers (8) |
| GLADIOLUS | Genus of plants with swordshaped leaves and spikes of brightly coloured flowers (9) |
| ASPHODEL | Southern European plant with spikes of white or yellow flowers (8) |
| AGRIMONY | From Greek for "poppy", thought due to its ancient use as a sedative, a plant with spikes of yellow flowers, hence its other names including church steeples, fairy wand and sticklewort (8) |
| VERONICA | Plant with spikes of blue or purple |
| HEBE | Largest genus of native plants with spikes of blue, white and mauve flowers (4) |
| SNAPDRAGONS | Plants with spikes of flowers resembling face with mouth (11) |
| ZINNIA | Genus of plants with solitary heads of brightly coloured flowers (6) |
| DELPHINIA | Garden plants with spikes of spurred flowers (9) |
| LILY | --- of the valley, garden plant with spikes of white bell-shaped fragrant flowers (4) |
| AZALEA | Deciduous shrub with clusters of brightly-coloured flowers (6) |
| DYERSROCKET | Plant with spikes of yellowish-green flowers, known since Neolithic times as the source of a yellow colouring called weld (5,6) |
| GOLDENROD | Plant with spikes of tiny golden flowers (9) |
| YUCCA | Stiff-leaved plant with spikes of white or purplish flowers (5) |
| MULLEIN | Plant with spikes of yellow flowers |
| BASIL | Eurasian plant with spikes of small white flowers and aromatic leaves (5) |
