| LANTANAS | Verbena's tropical cousins |
| COATI | Tropical cousin of the raccoon |
| AKEE | Tropical cousin of the lychee |
| NERVE | Pluck some thinner verbenas (5) |
| SILVER | Element from fossil verbenas (6) |
| LAPEL | A series of fine-leaved verbenas - place for a button hole? (5) |
| TURA | Incense (acc. pl.): verbenas, pueri, ponite ____que, Hor. C. 1.19.14 |
| LANTANA | Genus of tropical shrubs and woody perennials, related to verbena, with round heads of yellow, orange, red and pink flowers, often at the same time (7) |
| TEAKS | Trees of the verbena family |
| VERVAIN | Common name of Verbena officinalis (7) |
| AGNUSCASTUS | The verbena tree: "chaste lamb" perperam putes |
| POLARIS | Hardy, pale-lilac verbena - 'North Star' (7) |
| TEAK | Tree of the verbena family |
| NASA | They explore space for some verbena sage |
| ADMIRAL | Red -; migratory butterfly typically seen nectaring on buddleia, lavender and verbena in the summer |
| VENERABLE | Verbena struck the French as worthy of respect |
| CHARTREUSE | Flavoured with some 130 botanicals including angelica, citrus peel, lemon verbena and star anise, a herbal liqueur distilled by French monks (10) |
| MOTH | Hummingbird hawk- -; insect feeding on the nectar of honeysuckle, red verbena, cosmos and buddleia (4) |
| DANE | Hamlet -- as described by 12 -- having some verbena dotted around? (4) |
| HERBS | Rosemary, sage, mint, thyme, lemon verbena ... aromatic plants used for bouquet garnis, tisanes, flavouring Galliano and almost all foods (5) |
