| PATENS | Spreading blue-flowered gentian sage or Salvia - - - - - - (6) |
| GIRIJA | Sanskrit for Indian gentian or Swertia species (6) |
| BORAGE | Gold in yellowish-grey, say, or blue-flowered plant (6) |
| ALPINE | Flower growing at high altitude such as the mountain cowslip, snowbell, mountain avens or spring gentian, often used in rockeries (6) |
| SALVIA | Sage, or bedding plant (6) |
| ORACLE | Sage or coriander originally in brew (6) |
| APEROL | Italian aperitif whose ingredients include gentian and rhubarb (6) |
| ERYNGO | Blue-flowered bristly plant (6) |
| ONIONS | Shallot-like bulb vegetables used to make stuffing with sage or pickled in vinegar (6) |
| TEASEL | Prickly flower of a plant in the honeysuckle family with the snowberry, beauty bush, seablush, valerian and horse gentian (6) |
| ECHIUM | Eurasian plant genus of the borage family whose members include the blue-flowered viper's bugloss (6) |
| SCILLA | Blue flowered plant of lily family |
| PRAIRIE | Blue-flowered Eustoma grandiflora or - - - - - - - gentian (7) |
| CENTAURY | Pink-flowered plant of gentian family |
| AGUEWEED | A gentian with blue flowers (8) |
| ENGORGE | Extract of ginseng or gentian makes you swell up (7) |
| EUSTOMA | Lisianthus or prairie gentian (7) |
| VERNA | The spring gentian, Gentiana - - - - -, grown for its bright blue flowers (5) |
| FORGETMENOT | Blue-flowered plant you should remember... (6-2-3) |
| HERB | Once distinguished in botanica-like shops as either freshly gathered or cut and dried, hence the phrase, fragrant plants such as lavender, mint, rosemary, sage or thyme (4) |
