Free Printable Plants Word Search
A botany and gardening list for spring science units: plant parts (STAMEN, TENDRIL, ROOT, BUD), processes (GERMINATE, POLLINATE, PROPAGATE) and kinds of plant (SUCCULENT, CONIFER, PERENNIAL). Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 67 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 67 words.
How the plants words fit each size
66 of the 67 plants words fit the 11 × 11 easy grid. HORTICULTURE is too long for it, so it only turns up on the 15 × 15 medium and 19 × 19 hard grids.
25 words have five letters or fewer, BUD, ELM and IVY among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, HORTICULTURE, CHLOROPHYLL and HONEYSUCKLE, are the last to be found.
A way to use the plants word search
Pair it with a seed-planting lesson. Students circle each word they expect to watch happen in their own cup over the coming weeks: SEED, SPROUT, ROOT, LEAF.
All 67 words in the plants list
- HORTICULTURE
- IVY
- OAK
- ELM
- BUD
- POD
- ACORN
- BAMBOO
- BARK
- BLOSSOM
- BOTANY
- BRANCH
- BULB
- BUSH
- CACTUS
- CANOPY
- CHLOROPHYLL
- CLOVER
- COMPOST
- CONIFER
- CULTIVATE
- DANDELION
- DECIDUOUS
- EVERGREEN
- FERN
- FERTILIZER
- FLOWER
- FOLIAGE
- GARDEN
- GERMINATE
- GREENHOUSE
- HERB
- HONEYSUCKLE
- HOUSEPLANT
- HYDROPONICS
- LAVENDER
- LEAF
- MARIGOLD
- MOSS
- NECTAR
- ORCHID
- PALM
- PERENNIAL
- PETAL
- POLLEN
- POLLINATE
- PROPAGATE
- ROOT
- SAPLING
- SEED
- SHRUB
- SOIL
- SPROUT
- STAMEN
- STEM
- SUCCULENT
- TENDRIL
- TERRARIUM
- THISTLE
- THORN
- TRANSPLANT
- TREE
- TRUNK
- TWIG
- VEGETATION
- VINE
- WILLOW
Printing and the answer key
Print hides the controls; the PNG is rendered at 3× so letters stay crisp, and the answer key saves under its own filename. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
