Flowers

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots (7)
  2. 5. Any of numerous plants of the genus ___ grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves (7)
  3. 9. The flower of a ___ plant (13)
  4. 10. Any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish (7)
  5. 14. Any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with (8)
  6. 15. Any of numerous plants of the genus ___ native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having (9)
  7. 16. Any woodland plant of the genus ___ grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any of several plants of or developed from the species ___ pinnata having tuberous roots (6)
  2. 2. Any of various plants of the genus ___ cultivated for their variously and brightly colored (6)
  3. 3. Any plant of the genus ___ (8)
  4. 6. Genus of South African or Asiatic herbs: African daisies (7)
  5. 7. Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers (9)
  6. 8. A garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling (10)
  7. 11. Any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers (5)
  8. 12. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually (5)
  9. 13. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___ (4)