Plant Family (PvZ2)

Plant Families is a feature in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Plants are divided into families which are mostly there to indicate which plant is influenced by which Power Mint. A colored circle with the appropriate family icon can be seen in the upper-left corner of seed packets.

Families
Each family is named after the Power Mint with which it is associated. There are currently 8 families in the game with more to be added in future updates. The following down below is a list of Power mints that have been officially released and yet to come.

Fila-mint
The Fila-mint family is mainly composed of electric plants:
 * Citron
 * Electric Blueberry
 * Electric Currant
 * Electric Peashooter
 * E.M.Peach
 * Lightning Reed
 * Magnifying Grass

Reinforce-mint
The Reinforce-mint family is entirely composed of defensive plants:
 * Aloe
 * Chard Guard
 * Endurian
 * Holly Barrier
 * Infi-nut
 * Wall-nut
 * Pea-nut
 * Primal Wall-nut
 * Sweet Potato
 * Tall-nut

Bombard-mint
The Bombard-mint family is entirely composed of explosive plants:
 * Bombegranate
 * Cherry Bomb
 * Escape Root
 * Explode-O-Nut
 * Grapeshot
 * Potato Mine
 * Primal Potato Mine
 * Strawburst

Arma-mint
The Arma-mint family is entirely composed of lobbed-shot and cannon plants:
 * Cabbage-pult
 * Kernel-pult
 * Coconut Cannon
 * Melon-pult
 * Banana Launcher
 * A.K.E.E.
 * Apple Mortar

Contain-mint
The Contain-mint family is composed of plants that slow zombies down, including Grave Buster and Magnet-shroom:
 * Grave Buster
 * Spring Bean
 * Magnet-shroom
 * Sap-fling
 * Hurrikale
 * Stunion
 * Stallia

Pepper-mint
The Pepper-mint family plants is mainly composed of fire-based plants, including Ghost Pepper:
 * Fire Peashooter
 * Ghost Pepper
 * Hot Date
 * Hot Potato
 * Jack O' Lantern
 * Jalapeno
 * Lava Guava
 * Pepper-pult
 * Snapdragon
 * Torchwood

Spear-mint
The Spear-mint family is entirely composed of plants with spikes or piercing attacks:
 * Bloomerang
 * Spikeweed
 * Spikerock
 * Laser Bean
 * Homing Thistle
 * Cactus

Enchant-mint
The Enchant-mint family is entirely composed of plants that utilize magic in some capacity:
 * Hypno-shroom
 * Intensive Carrot
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Witch Hazel
 * Caulipower

Conceal-mint
The Conceal-mint family is entirely composed of shadow plants:
 * Moonflower
 * Nightshade
 * Shadow-shroom
 * Dusk Lobber
 * Grimrose
 * Shadow Peashooter

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Appease-mint
The Appease-mint family is mainly composed of pea-shooting plants, and some range shooting plants:
 * Peashooter
 * Repeater
 * Threepeater
 * Split Pea
 * Pea Pod
 * Starfruit
 * Rotobaga
 * Primal Peashooter
 * Red Stinger
 * Dandelion

Enlighten-mint
The Enlighten-mint family is entirely composed of sun-producing plants:
 * Sunflower
 * Twin Sunflower
 * Sun-Shroom
 * Sun Bean
 * Toadstool
 * Primal Sunflower
 * Solar Tomato

Ail-mint
The Ail-mint family is entirely composed of plants that utilize harmful efects or spores to zombies:
 * Blooming Heart
 * Chili Bean
 * Puff-shroom
 * Fume-shroom
 * Garlic
 * Spore-shroom

Enforce-mint
The Enforce-mint family is mainly composed of melee plants:
 * Bonk Choy
 * Squash
 * Chomper
 * Tangle Kelp
 * Bowling Bulb
 * Guacodile
 * Phat Beet
 * Celery Stalker
 * Wasabi Whip
 * Kiwibeast

Winter-mint
The Winter-mint is entirely composed of chilling and freezing plants:
 * Iceberg Lettuce
 * Winter Melon
 * Snow Pea
 * Cold Snapdragon
 * Missile Toe

No family
The following plants have no family, usually due to them being non-attacking or instant-use plants.


 * Power Lily
 * Imitater (takes on the family of imitated plant)
 * Marigold
 * Blover
 * Tile Turnip
 * Lily Pad
 * Gold Leaf
 * Thyme Warp
 * Gold Bloom
 * Perfume-shroom

Strategies
Whenever you plant a Power mint on the board, it'll do some damage or affect the zombies, then boost the plants on the lawn that are members of the appropriate family. Boosting plants will increase their damage, toughness and/or sun-producing. With Buffz & Bruisez on, you can use Power mints to boost the family that is currently having a Strong buff. Avoid using Power mints when their families are ineffective, since not even a power mint will make the plant do any damage to the zombies at all.

Trivia

 * There are some plants that should be in the following family, but are not:
 * Despite being a fire plant, Wasabi Whip is not in the Pepper-mint family.
 * Despite being an electrical plant, Magnet-Shroom is not in the Fila-mint family.
 * Despite being explosive plants, Coconut cannon and Dandelion are not in the Bombard-mint family
 * Imitaters family depends on what family of the plant he imitated is.