Spring Flowers

Spring Hard 16 words0 plays

Colorful spring flowers—tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths—blanket a garden in exuberant bloom.
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  • AZALEA
  • CAMELLIA
  • CHRYSANTHEMUM
  • CROCUS
  • DAFFODIL
  • DAISY
  • DANDELION
  • DIANTHUS
  • HYACINTH
  • IRIS
  • LILAC
  • MAGNOLIA
  • PRIMROSE
  • RHODODENDRON
  • TULIP
  • VIOLET

Gardeners wait all winter for the first burst of spring color. This grid gathers the blooms that arrive with the season, from crocus and daffodil to hyacinth, iris, and violet. Play it online or print a copy to keep with the garden notes.

What the words in this puzzle mean

AZALEA
A shrubby rhododendron that covers itself in flowers before the leaves fill out.
CAMELLIA
A glossy evergreen shrub flowering from late winter, and the plant tea comes from.
CHRYSANTHEMUM
Grown for autumn colour, though nursery forcing puts it in shops year round.
CROCUS
One of the first flowers up, often pushing through snow; saffron comes from one species.
DAFFODIL
A trumpet-flowered narcissus, and the standard signal that spring has arrived.
DAISY
A lawn flower that opens with the sun — its name comes from "day's eye".
DANDELION
A tough yellow composite whose seed clock children blow; every part is edible.
DIANTHUS
The pinks and carnations, grown for clove-scented flowers with fringed petals.
HYACINTH
A dense spike of intensely scented bells, forced indoors for early flowers.
IRIS
Named for the goddess of the rainbow, with three upright petals and three falling ones.
LILAC
A tall shrub carrying cones of scented flowers in late spring.
MAGNOLIA
An ancient tree that flowers on bare branches; it evolved before bees existed.
PRIMROSE
A low woodland flower whose name means "first rose" of the year.
RHODODENDRON
A large evergreen shrub with trusses of flowers, needing acid soil.
TULIP
A bulb from Central Asia whose bulbs once traded for the price of a house in Holland.
VIOLET
A small scented woodland flower whose perfume briefly numbs the sense of smell.

Spring Flowers Word Search Answer Key

Checking a finished sheet, or stuck on the last word? The Spring Flowers Word Search Answer Key marks all 16 hidden words in the grid and lists the row, column and direction each one starts from. It prints on its own sheet, so you can hand out the puzzle and keep the answers.

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