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Desert Plants Word Search

Sahara Survival: Desert Plants Word Search

  • 19 words
  • 14x14 grid
  • Challenging

Find these hardy desert plants hidden in the grid! Test your knowledge of how plants adapt to extreme heat and dry conditions.

There are 19 words to find in a 14x14 grid, among them Gooseberry, Paloverde, Yucca, Sotol and Cactus. The longest is Gooseberry at 10 letters.

As Desert Plants word searches go this is a proper challenge - words run in all eight directions including backwards, which is where most of the difficulty comes from.

Long words dominate the list, which tends to make the first few finds quick and the last few slow.

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Find these 19 words

  • SOTOL
  • YUCCA
  • ALEOPO
  • BARREL
  • CACTUS
  • JOSHUA
  • MOHAVE
  • BLOSSOM
  • MEXICAN
  • PRICKLY
  • SAGUARO
  • SANDVED
  • CREOSOTE
  • MESQUITE
  • OCOTILLO
  • SALVADOR
  • BURROWEED
  • PALOVERDE
  • GOOSEBERRY