| BORAGE | Related to plants including comfrey, forgetme-not and heliotrope, a herb with edible blue flowers and cucumber-flavoured leaves (6) |
| FOOTREGIMENT | Some soldiers find one in forgetme-not arrangement (4,8) |
| GARDENIA | Related to plants including coffee, bedstraw and madder, a fragrant flower for indoors, orangery or conservatory (8) |
| HEAD | Word for a capitulum of flowers; an effigy on a coin; one's "upper storey"-encasing caput; a cabbage or lettuce, dense and round like said anterior bonce; a schoolmaster/mistress; a nide of pheasants; |
| SNOWDON | Welsh mountain and nature reserve in Gwynedd, home to plants including the lily Gagea serotina (7) |
| BILBERRY | Upland shrub with edible blue-black fruits |
| SKY | ___ blue; forgetme-not's color |
| GARLAND | Wreath of plaited flowers; an anthology of poems; or, an actress who starred as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (7) |
| IVIES | In plural, what is any South African plant from the genus of the same name that has showy flowers an |
| PYRETHRUM | Eurasian plant such as Chrysanthemum roseum from whose dried flowers an insecticide is prepared (9) |
| NOT | Forgetme-___ |
| TANSY | Also known as golden buttons and cow bitter, a herb with yellow flowers and feathery foliage used as a natural insect repellent in potpourri (5) |
| SAGE | Burned in a ritual known as smudging, a herb with velvety leaves used to flavour foods such as cheese, stuffing, sausage rolls, risotto and gnocchi (4) |
| DILL | A herb with yellow flowers and a strong sweet smell (4) |
| ARCHANGEL | A divine messenger of the highest order, or one ranking eighth in the celestial hierarchy; a name of a herb with aromatic hollow stems, often candied for cakes or puddings; a breed of fancy pigeon; or |
| ARNICA | The golden-bloomed herb "leopard's-bane"; or, a balm or tincture of said plant's dried flowers that, like comfrey and calendula, is used as a traditional or folk remedy for aches, bruises or sprains ( |
| ANEMONE | Sea -; named after a terrestrial flower, an animal related to jellyfish, existing symbiotically with |
| PECCADILLO | Slight fault serving up mushroom with head of cauliflower and a herb with duck (10) |
| WILD | A word used to denote an uncultivated flower, an untamed animal or an uninhabited place (4) |
| ROSEMARY | Derived from the Latin meaning sea dew, a herb with needle-like leaves used to flavour focaccia, roast lamb and parmesan shortbread (8) |
