Plants (PvZ)

Plants are living organisms that belong to the kingdom Plantae. 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.

Overview
There are forty-nine 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 Pads to be in the water.

Plants Received When Playing Adventure Mode
At the end of each level in Adventure Mode (except for the fourth and ninth level in every stage), a new seed packet of a plant is received. Once the Suburban Almanac is acquired, a humorous summary of each plant can be read as well as helpful facts about it.

Plants Received From Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies
Once Crazy Dave's Car Keys are found, Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies is unlocked and plants can be purchased. These plants, called Upgrade Plants, are the Gatling Pea, Twin Sunflower, Gloom-shroom, Cattail, Winter Melon, Gold Magnet, Spikerock, Cob Cannon, and Imitater.

Projectiles
To fight Zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, Peas are fired from Peashooting Plants, Spikes are fired from Cattails and Cacti, Spores are shot from plants like Puff-shrooms, Scaredy-shrooms and Fumes are shot from Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms. Lobbed-shot plants do not fire specific kinds of projectiles, and Stars are fired from Starfruit. Note: The table below is about the damge of the projectiles. The numbers are about the number of peas equvalent to the projectile.

Sun-Producing Plants
Sun-producing plants, like Sunflowers and Sun-shrooms, are vital to Adventure Mode, Mini-games, or Survival Mode levels (but not Conveyor-Belt Levels) in order to plant plants. 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.

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 (available on the iPod Touch/iPhone version of the game and versions of the game purchased through Steam), all 49 plants must be acquired (including the Imitater).

Plants

 * Blover
 * Cabbage-pult
 * Cactus
 * Cattail
 * Cherry Bomb
 * Chomper
 * Cob Cannon
 * Coffee Bean
 * Doom-shroom
 * Flower Pot
 * Fume-shroom
 * Garlic
 * Gatling Pea
 * Gloom-shroom
 * Gold Magnet
 * Grave Buster
 * Hypno-shroom
 * Ice-shroom
 * Imitater
 * Jalapeno
 * Kernel-pult
 * Lily Pad
 * Magnet-shroom
 * Marigold
 * Melon-pult
 * Peashooter
 * Plantern
 * Potato Mine
 * Puff-shroom
 * Pumpkin
 * Repeater
 * Scaredy-shroom
 * Sea-shroom
 * Snow Pea
 * Spikerock
 * Spikeweed
 * Split Pea
 * Squash
 * Starfruit
 * Sunflower
 * Sun-shroom
 * Tall-nut
 * Tangle Kelp
 * Threepeater
 * Torchwood
 * Twin Sunflower
 * Umbrella Leaf
 * Wall-nut
 * Winter Melon

Trivia

 * The mushrooms and the Spikerock are classified as plants even though mushrooms are fungi and the Spikerock is really a rock.