Plants (PvZ)

Plants are living organisms that belong to the kingdom Plantae in Science. They obtain most of their energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. They also seem to be the only things the player can defend their house with against a horde of Zombies. Plants also populate the Zen Garden, though only in the PC, Xbox, and DS versions.

Overview
There are 49 different plants each with different abilities. At Night, sun is harder to come by; so fungi are usually used. Also in Pool levels, plants must be either aquatic or planted on Lily Pad to be in the water.

Plants Received When Playing Adventure Mode
At the end of each level in Adventure Mode, a new seed packet of a plant made by the Bloom And Doom Seed Company is received from the last zombie to die. 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 From Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies
Once Crazy Dave's Car Key is found, Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies is unlocked and plants can be purchased. These plants called Upgrade Plants include the Gatling Pea, Twin Sunflower, Gloom shroom, Cattail, Winter Melon, Gold Magnet, Spikerock, and Cob Cannon. The Imitater is also available here.

Projectiles
To fight zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, Peas are fired from a pea-shooting plants. Spikes are fired from Cattails and Cacti. 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 Starfruit. Lobbed-shot Plants can also shoot over shields and hit Snorkel Zombie while they are underwater, although they cannot hit Balloon Zombie 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.

Sun Producing Plants
Sun producing plants are vital to Adventure Mode, Mini game, or Survival Mode 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 packet for plant 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.

Sun Production

Money Producing Plants
The Marigold is the main Money producing plant, but plants in the Zen Garden also make coins.

Morticulturalist Achievement
To unlock the Morticulturalist achievement you must collect all 49 plants, including the upgrade plants in Crazy Dave's shop.

The Plants
* Is an upgrade you can buy from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.

** Not an upgrade, but can also be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.

Trivia

 * The mushrooms are classified as plants, even though mushrooms are fungi.
 * The plants on the Plants vs. Zombies website's character page have different images from those in the game.
 * Every plant blinks after a while, except for the Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom, Jalapeno, Chomper, Flower Pot, and Pumpkin, because the Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom and Jalapeno explodes instantly, the Chomper has no eyes, the Flower Pot has its eyes closed, and the Pumpkin has eyes that are carved in.
 * On the Plants vs. Zombies website the images on the Zombatar page shows edited plants. But in truth, only normal Zombies can be edited.
 * All the game commercials for Plants vs. Zombies show Peashooters with the back of the Repeaters.
 * The Gloom-shroom is the only plant that can fire in eight directions.
 * Most plants take six bites before being eaten.
 * Different animations are seen when you plant something in different terrain. If you plant something on land or on the Roof, you can see soil jumping out of the ground, if you plant something on water, there will be a splash of water.
 * Although the Suburban Almanac makes clear distinctions about the gender of the plants, biologically they are both male and female.
 * In Beghouled, When a zombie eats a plant, it leaves a crater that can only be filled if the player spends 200 sun.
 * On the Plants vs. Zombies Official Website, in the Characters section, it says that there are only forty-two plants.
 * There are forty-two plants not counting the Imitater or Upgrade plants, which may be what they are counting.