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 and Xbox version.

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 made by the Bloom And Doom Seed Co. is received. Once the Suburban Almanac is acquired, a humorous quotes of each plant can be read as well as a summary and 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 and Cob Cannon. The Imitater can also be purchased from here.

Projectiles
To fight Zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, Peas are fired from Pea-shooting 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. Lobbed-shot plants can also bypass 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.

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. Also, in Survival: Endless, upgrades cost 50 more Sun to plant for each of that particular plant on the lawn at the time of planting.

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 plants from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies ).

Trivia

 * The mushrooms and the Spikerock are classified as plants even though mushrooms are fungi and the Spikerock is really a rock.
 * The plants on the Plants vs. Zombies website's character page have different images from those in the game.
 * All plants blink after awhile except for the Chomper and the Flower Pot because the Chomper has no eyes and the Flower Pot has its eyes closed.
 * The Plants vs. Zombies website states that the Chomper needs 175 sun to buy, while it only requires 150.
 * On the Plants vs. Zombies website the images on the Zombatar page show that plants can also be edited. But in truth, only the Flag Zombie 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.