Nightshade

Nightshade is the second plant obtained in Modern Day in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It hurts zombies close to it by slapping them with its leaves. However, it can only do this three times. If powered by a Moonflower, it can regrow and fire these leaves, becoming a long-ranged offensive plant.

Almanac entry
Sun cost: 75

DAMAGE: Heavy

RANGE:  Straight

RECHARGE:  Fast

Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves.

SPECIAL:  hurls and regrows leaves when powered.

For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.

Plant Food
When fed with Plant Food, Nightshade will regrow all of its leaves, then hurl 3 large leaves at zombies. Each large leaf deals 30 normal damage shots, similar to the large pea Repeater shoots at the end of its plant food effect.

Strategies
Like all other shadow plants, Nightshade is considered stronger when powered, as it can attack in much further distance and gain the ability to regrow its leaves. This however, is a trade-off, as a not-powered Nightshade can do more damage than when it is powered.

Nightshade should be used as a supporting offensive plant rather than a main one as its cheap cost and fast recharge allows it to pick off big threats in numbers quickly.

Trivia

 * Nightshade reuses attacking sounds from Cactus.
 * Its appearance resembles Bloomerang.
 * Oddly enough, when Nightshade is not powered, it has powered leaves instead of the basic purple leaves.
 * When Nightshade attacks whether powered or not, its leaves turn purple.
 * When costumed, the player can see Nightshade's costume slightly shaking during his certain idling animation.