Plants are living organisms that belong to the kingdom of Plantae in science, according to their classification systems. They obtain most of their energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. They are the main protagonists within a horde of zombies, and are the player's only defense against the undead assailants. Plants also populate the Zen Garden, available in the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, iPad and iPhone versions. Zombies can eat plants. As in the Zen Garden, you'll be able to water, spray and fertilize to grow Plants.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Plants Received When Playing Adventure Mode 3 Plants Received at Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies 4 Projectiles 5 Sun Producing Plants 6 Money Producing Plants 6.1 Morticulturalist Achievement 7 List of Plants 8 Trivia 9 See Also

Overview Edit

There are 49 different plants each with different abilities and special attributes. At Night, sun is harder to come by; so mushrooms are usually used. Also, in Pool levels, plants must be either aquatic, or planted on a Lily Pad to be in the water, and the Roof needs Flower Pots to plant on.

On the top of each plant seed packet, there is a phrase: "BLOOM & DOOM SEED CO." (except in DS and DSiWare version)

Plants Received When Playing Adventure Mode Edit

At the end of each level in Adventure Mode, a new seed packet of a plant made by the Bloom & Doom Seed Company is received from the last zombie to get destroyed. There is a theory that Crazy Dave throws them according to a Sneak Peek to the Xbox 360 Version. Once the Suburban Almanac is acquired in level 2-4, a humorous quote of each plant can be read as well as a summary and helpful fact about it.

Plants Received at Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies Edit

Once Crazy Dave's car key is found, Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies is unlocked and plants can be purchased. These plants are called Upgrade Plants. They are the Gatling Pea, Twin Sunflower, Gloom-shroom, Cattail, Winter Melon, Gold Magnet, Spikerock, and Cob Cannon. The Imitater is also available here, but requires completing Adventure Mode before it can be bought. Other Upgrade Plants will arrive after receiving certain objects, such as the Magic Taco. Also if you have bought the Imitater, you will see a picture of the Imitater in the upper left hand corner. Click on it to see his seed packet.

Projectiles Edit

To fight zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, Peas are fired from Peashooting Plants, such as Peashooters and Threepeater. Spikes are fired from Cattail and Cactus. Spores are shot from Puff-shroom, Scaredy-shroom and Sea-shroom. Fumes are shot from Fume-shroom and Gloom-shroom. Lobbed-shot Plants each fire their own specific kind of projectile. Stars are fired from Starfruits. Lobbed-shot Plants such as Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, Melon-pults and Winter Melons can also shoot over shields and hit Snorkel Zombies while they are underwater, although they cannot hit Balloon Zombies despite the fact they shoot high up. Note: The table below is about the damage of the projectiles. The numbers are the number of peas equivalent in damage to the projectile, and a normal zombie takes 10 peas to kill.

Projectile shooter name	Damage per shot	Projectile	Number of pea equivalent
Peashooter, Repeater, Threepeater, Split Pea and Gatling Pea	Normal	Pea or Flaming Pea after passing a Torchwood	1 if pea & flaming pea splash damage; 2 if flaming pea
Snow Pea	Normal, also slows zombies	Frozen Pea	1, reduce zombies' speed by 50%
Puff-shroom, Scaredy-shroom and Sea-shroom	Normal	Spore	1
Fume-shroom and Gloom-shroom	Normal, penetrates screen doors, ladders and Newspapers	Fume	1, all zombies in range
Cactus and Cattail	Normal, pops balloons	Spike	1, or pops balloon (Note: Popping Balloon Zombie's balloons will not kill him. Instead, he will drop to the ground, so other plants can kill him. If his balloon is popped over the Pool, he will die immediately)
Starfruit	Normal	Star	1 (but several of them can hit the same zombie if close enough)
Cabbage-pult	Normal	Cabbage	2
Kernel-pult	Light (kernel), normal and paralyzes zombies (butter)	Kernel/Butter	1 (kernel), 2 + paralyze (butter)
Melon-pult	Heavy, AoE	Melon	4 (target), 2 (splash)
Winter Melon	Very heavy, AoE, slows zombies	Frozen Melon	4 + 50 % speed (target) 2 + 50 % speed (splash)

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Sun Producing Plants Edit

Sun producing plants are vital for regular levels in order to plant. Each plant has a certain amount of Sun that is needed in order for it to be planted. Also, the seed packets for plants have a recharge time; some of which are longer than others. In Survival: Endless, upgrades cost 50 more Sun to plant for each of that particular plant on the lawn at the time of planting. Below are the costs of Sun Producing Plants and how much sun is produced.

Cost of Sun Producing Plants

Name of Sun Producing Plant	Sun Cost	Sun Produced by Plant
Sunflower	50	25 sun per production, 50 sun per production in Big Time, the Cancelled Mini-game.
Sun-shroom	25	15 sun per production, then after about 2 minutes, a normal 25 sun per production.
Twin Sunflower	150 (+50 if Survival: Endless)	50 sun per production.

Sun Production

Sun Size	Amount of Sun Given
Big Sun	50
Normal Sun	25
Small Sun	15

Money Producing Plants Edit

The Marigold is the only money producing plant, but plants in the Zen Garden also make coins when watered, when fertilized and when happy. In the Zen Garden , You can make lots of money at the right time.

Morticulturalist Achievement Edit

To unlock the Morticulturalist achievement you must collect all 49 plants, including the upgrade plants and the Imitater in Crazy Dave's shop. Be prepared to be money farming for a long time, because all plants from Crazy Dave when added together cost $98,000!

List of Plants Edit

Plant	Image	Characteristics	Sun cost	Recharge
Peashooter		Shoots peas at zombies.	100	Fast
Sunflower***		Produces 25 sun about every 24 seconds.	50	Fast
Cherry Bomb		Explodes all zombies in a 3x3 area.	150	Very Slow
Wall-nut***		Much stronger than most plants and protects anything behind it.	50	Slow
Potato Mine		Explodes all zombies in its square, but takes 15 seconds to arm itself. Must be planted in earth.	25	Slow
Snow Pea		Shoots frozen peas that damage and slow zombies.	175	Fast
Chomper		Eats any zombie in front, but is vulnerable while chewing.	150	Fast
Repeater		Shoots two peas at a time.	200	Fast
Puff-shroom		Nocturnal, shoots spores to zombies up to 3 squares away from it.	0	Fast
Sun-shroom		Nocturnal, gives 15 sun first, then grows and gives 25 sun.	25	Fast
Fume-shroom		Nocturnal, shoots fumes that damage all zombies up to 4 squares away from it and penetrates shields.	75	Fast
Grave Buster		Destroys the grave it is planted on, dropping money. Can only be planted on gravestones.	75	Fast
Hypno-shroom		Nocturnal, hypnotizes zombies and makes them turn around and fight other zombies.	75	Slow
Scaredy-shroom		Nocturnal, shoots long ranged spores. Stops shooting and hides when a zombie is adjacent to it.	25	Fast
Ice-shroom		Nocturnal, does 1 damage. Immobilizes all zombies on-screen which gradually recover.	75	Slow
Doom-shroom		Nocturnal, explodes all zombies in radius 3.5, then leaves a crater that can't be planted on but will heal itself in 180 seconds. Destroys Lily Pads or Flower Pots underneath.	125	Very Slow
Lily Pad		Aquatic, allows other plants to be planted in water	25	Fast
Squash		Waits for a zombie to get to the right or left of it, then squashes all zombies in the same square.	50	Slow
Threepeater		Shoots peas in 3 lanes (above, middle and below)	325	Fast
Tangle Kelp		Aquatic, captures and drowns the first zombie that gets near it. Only able to drown one zombie at a time.	25	Slow
Jalapeno		Burns all zombies in its row.	125	Very Slow
Spikeweed		Does damage to zombies that step on it and pops tires on Zombonis. Is destroyed by vehicles, Jack-in-the-Box Zombies and Gargantuar only.	100	Fast
Torchwood		Doubles the damage of all regular green peas that pass through it. Flaming peas deal splash damage in the same square of the zombie hit. Also uncovers fog in 1 1/4 squares above, below, right and left. Also negates frozen peas and if the zombie is frozen it unfreezes them.	175	Fast
Tall-nut		Stronger than a Wall-nut and can't be jumped over, but can be flown over.	125	Slow
Sea-shroom		Aquatic and nocturnal, shoots spores to zombies 3 squares away from it.	0	Slow
Plantern		Uncovers fog in a 5x5 area.	25	Slow
Cactus		Deals normal damage and can stretch up high to pop balloons.	125	Fast
Blover		Blows away fog temporarily and all Balloon Zombies.	100	Fast
Split Pea		Shoots one pea forwards and two peas backwards.	125	Fast
Starfruit		Shoots stars in 5 directions.	125	Fast
Pumpkin		As strong as a Wall-nut and can be planted over another plant.	125	Slow
Magnet-shroom		Nocturnal, attracts all metal items on zombies in a 3 square radius. Reloads in 15 seconds.	100	Fast
Cabbage-pult		Lobs cabbages at the half the rate of a Peashooter for double damage.	100	Fast
Flower Pot		Allows a plant to be planted on the roof.	25	Fast
Kernel-pult		Lobs corn kernels that do normal damage and butter that does double damage and immobilizes zombies.	100	Fast
Coffee Bean		Can only be planted on sleeping mushrooms and wakes them up.	75	Fast
Garlic		Diverts zombies that bite it to the lane above or below.	50	Fast
Umbrella Leaf		Bounces off all Bungee Zombies and can deflect basketballs launched by the Catapult Zombies in a 3x3 area.	100	Fast
Marigold***		Drops silver and gold coins.	50	Slow
Melon-pult		Lobs melons at the half the rate of a Peashooter and does splash damage to all adjacent squares. Can hit groups of zombies.	300	Fast (Very Slow in Versus Mode)
Gatling Pea*		Shoots 4 peas at a time. Upgrades Repeaters .	250 (+200) in all 450	Very Slow
Twin Sunflower*		Produces 2 regular sun about every 24 seconds. Upgrades Sunflowers .	150 (+50) in all 200	Very Slow
Gloom-shroom*		Shoots fumes 4 times per second in a 3x3 area and penetrates shields. Upgrades Fume-shrooms .	150 (+75) in all 225	Very Slow
Cattail*		Aquatic, shoots spikes in any lane and pops balloons. Upgrades Lily Pads .	225 (+25) in all 250	Very Slow
Winter Melon*		Lobs frozen melons that deal splash damage, damage and slow zombies. Upgrades Melon-pults .	200 (+300) in all 500	Very Slow
Gold Magnet*		Attracts all money and does not need a Coffee Bean, as it is diurnal. Upgrades Magnet-shrooms .	50 (+100) in all 150	Very Slow
Spikerock*		Does 2 damages per second to all zombies that step on it and takes 9 vehicles or Gargantuar smashes to be destroyed. Upgrades Spikeweed .	125 (+100) in all 225	Very Slow
Cob Cannon*		Click to target where to launch a deadly corn cob, blowing up an area. Upgrades 2 horizontal side-by-side Kernel-pults .	500 (+100x2) in all 700	Very Slow
Imitater**		Allows you to have 2 of a plant in any level (except for upgrades). Recharge and cost depend on the imitated plant. Takes 3.2 seconds before imitating.	Depends on plant to copy	As the Imitated Plant

*Is an upgrade that can be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
**Not an upgrade, but can also be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
***Becomes bigger in the cancelled Mini-game Big Time.

TriviaEdit

• Most plants take 6 bites to be eaten.
• In the new iPhone update, all plants that are being chewed on by zombies will flash, not just the sun producers.

  

• No plants start with letter A, X, Y or Z.
• Mushrooms are classified as plants, even though they are actually fungi, wich is an entirely different kingdom on the tree of life.

• Every plant blinks after a while, except for the Hypno-shroom, Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom, Jalapeno, Ice-shroom, Chomper, Flower Pot, Coffee Bean, and Pumpkin, because the Cherry Bomb, Ice-shroom Doom-shroom and Jalapeno explode instantly, the Chomper has no eyes, the Flower Pot has its eyes closed, Coffee Bean is used instantly, the Pumpkin has eyes that are carved in and the Hypno-shroom has swirly eyes.

• All plants bounce as if they were following some music, except cardboard ones, which move only in the presence of a zombie in range.

• Although often thought to not be a plant, the Flower Pot does have eyes and its Almanac Entry suggests that it is indeed a plant.

  

• In the Instant kills' Suburban Almanac pages, they do blink. Also the Garlic when it is crying never seems to blink.

• A Potato Mine takes about 15 seconds to get itself armed, or the time for a normal Zombie's speed to go 3 squares.

• Most game commercials and the Mini-game Slot Machine for Plants vs. Zombies show Peashooters with the back of the Repeater.

• In the Suburban Almanac, the Grave Buster and the Plantern are the only plants that the background is night. That's because they're important in Night and Fog.

• Different animations are seen when you plant something in a different terrain. If you plant something on land, or a Flower Pot, you can see soil jumping out of the ground. If you plant something on water, there will be a splash of water.

• When you plant on land or on a Flower Pot, there are two slightly different sound effects that can be made. Planting on water, however will only produce one sound effect.

• On the Plants vs. Zombies Official Website, in the Characters section, it says that there are only forty-two plants, although there are only forty plants when the Imitater or Upgrade plants are not counted.

• No code can affect the plants, however many affect the zombies.

• The Chomper, Gold Magnet, Spikerock and Grave Buster are the only plants whose names are not derived from a plant.

• On the Plants vs Zombies website it says that Chomper costs 175 sun, but it actually costs 150.

• Upgrade plants says they must be planted on their downgrades, Grave Buster must be planted on graves, Lily Pad must be planted on water, and Flower Pot can be planted on the both Roof & the Lawn.

• At the Zen Garden, you can water, spray, play music to, and grow a plant.

• With the exception of the DS/DSi versions, no plants on the screen will bounce at the same rate.

• Plants are translated in Japanese as "植物" or "プラント" (Shokubutsu or Puranto).
• The Corn Cob takes about 36 seconds to be ready.
• The most plants you can have on 1 square is five: Lily Pad/Flower Pot + a Magnet-shroom + a Coffee Bean + a Gold Magnet + a Pumpkin.
• The Melon-pult is the popular plant in Survival: Endless.
• In the Zen Garden, aquatic plants never asks for water.

See AlsoEdit

• Gallery of Plants
• Upgrade Plants
• Encyclopedia