Shadow Flower

The Shadow Flower is variant of Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare.

Description
The Shadow Flower works from the darkness, righting wrongs and singing songs-her mask disguises her true Sunflower heritage.

Variant Advantage
The Sun Pulse attack has been replaced by an attack called Dark Energy. This attack has a faster rate of fire than Sun Pulse, but a shorter range, making it perfect for close range combat. It also has shorter range than the normal Sunflower, coming it at Short/Mid Range. It also does higher critical damage as well as doing more damage the closer you are. The trade off is you're damage drops off much faster the further you are from your target. When compared to the default sunflower.

Primary Weapon
Dark Energy is the primary weapon of Shadow Flower, which has 60 ammo.

Heal Beam
First special ability, this power allows the Sunflower to heal nearby plants, as expected.

Sunbeam
One of the Sunflower's special abilities, the Sun Laser plants the the Sunflower down and shoots a powerful sun laser, which does more damage than the Sun Pulse.

Heal Flower
When using this special ability, the Sunflower plants a Heal Flower that can heal any plant near it.

Rainbow Heal Beam
Alternate of the Heal Beam. It is rainbow colored.

Solar Flare
Solar Flare is the alternative to the Sunflowers normal Sun Beam, you're making a trade off because it doesn't last as long as the normal Sun Beam but it does more damage. You can expect to do around 10 damage normally and critical hits are 12, but just like the normal sun beam when you use this ability the whole other team will see an icon of a Sunflower showing them where you are. For this reason I personally prefer the Solar Flare for Multiplayer, because it basically turns you into an objective. I'm almost certain this replaces the alternate ability that the Shadow Flower has. However the normal sunflower's Ability adds to Sunbeam/Solar Flare damage, while the Shadow Sunflowers adds to it's primary attack damage.

Dark Flower
Alternate of the Heal Flower. It shoots laser to attack zombies.

Shadowy Reload Technique
The shadowy technique that allows the collection of light in a way that helps her reload faster.

Dark Energy Collector
Dark energy storage allows for higher ammo capacity.

Particle Accelerator
Accelerated dark matter particles increases damage.

Trivia

 * The Shadow Flower has a stereotypical robber mask, and burglars usually "Hide Among the Shadows".