| PALEA | Upper bract of a floret of grass |
| SPRIG | Small floret of parsley |
| RAY | One of the florets surrounding disc floret of eg daisy - spot of sunshine? (3) |
| RAYS | The florets surrounding disc florets of eg daisy; also, fish such as skates (4) |
| LEMMA | The outer of two bracts surrounding each floret in a grass spikelet (5) |
| SWAG | A bend or bow; a burglar's bulging bag of booty or boodle; a beautifying botanical band or bays of berries, blooms, bracts or buds; or, a bushman's bedroll or bundle of belongings (4) |
| LEAF | Foil-like gold; a hinged flap of a table; or, a bract, frond or needle (4) |
| AWN | Word for the bristle or beard of an ear, floret, glume or spikelet of barley, fox-tail or other cereal/grass (3) |
| ARUMLILY | Ornamental plant with a brilliant yellow spike of flowers in a funnel-like bract (4,4) |
| BURR | A prickly seedcase of a hardoke or clote; or, any clinging bract or thing (4) |
| TREFOIL | Variety of floret round one clover plant (7) |
| COMA | Nebulous envelope surrounding the nucleus of a comet; or, a group of bracts crowning a pineapple (4) |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| CUPULE | From "cask, tub", a botanical word for the small woody thimble- or teabowl-like domed bract holding the smooth oval nut of an acorn (6) |
| OREO | Cookie with floret designs |
| BUTTERFLYORCHID | Plant hybrid with floret cut off |
| CAPITULUM | Flower head such as that of a daisy, comprising many small florets clustered on a disc (9) |
| LACECAPS | Hydrangeas with flat heads of tiny central flowers in a ring of showy florets (8) |
| POINSETTIA | A gloriously festive euphorbiaceous Christmas plant whose showy "petals", the deep-red colour of autumn trees, schnozzles during a freeze or wax coats of Edam cheese, are in fact bracts or modified le |
| RAYLESS | Of a plant, lacking florets (7) |
