- For the version in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars, see Nightshade.
Nightshade is the second plant obtained in Modern Day in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He will slap any zombies in front of him with his leaves every 4 seconds but can only do this three times and can only do so at close range. If powered by a Moonflower, not only can his leaves actually be fired in Appease-mint-style formation, but he also gains the ability to regrow said leaves every 5 seconds, effectively turning him into a long-ranged offensive plant instead of a melee plant. However, thrown leaves do less damage compared to leaves slapping a zombie.
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Origins

He is based on the Solanaceae, which is an economically important family of flowering plants, known as climbing nightshades.
His appearance may be based on Solanum dulcamara, with his leaves being based on the purple petals and his cap being based on the reproductive part of the flower.
Almanac entry
NOTE: Nightshade costs 50 sun in Chinese version.
Nightshade
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Nightshade
SUN COST: 75
RECHARGE: 5
TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 100
RANGE: Straight
FAMILY: Conceal-mint
Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves.
Special: hurls and regrows leaves when powered
For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.
Upgrades
Plant Food effect
When fed with Plant Food, Nightshade will regrow all of his leaves, then hurl three large leaves at zombies. Each large leaf deals 600 damage per shot, similar to the large pea Repeater shoots at the end of his Plant Food effect. Additionally, after performing the effect, all leaves thrown by Nightshade will deal 150 damage per shot instead of 100 and his melee attack will do 600 damage per shot instead of 200.
Conceal-mint effect
When boosted by Conceal-mint, Nightshade will do an additional 400 DPS on his ranged attacks and an additional 1800 DPS on his Plant Food ranged attacks. He will be powered even if not adjacent to a Moonflower.
Level upgrade
Level | Seed packets | Coins | Upgrades | |||||||||
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Sun Cost | Recharge (Fast) |
Toughness (Typical) |
Damage (Heavy) |
Plant Food Power (Damage) |
Projectile Velocity |
Range | ||||||
Ranged | Melee | Melee | Ranged | |||||||||
Normal | Powered* | |||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 5 seconds | 300 dps | 100 dps | 150 dps | 200 dps | 600 dps | 600 dps | Normal | Straight |
2 | 10 | 1,000 | 5 seconds | 350 dps | 125 dps | 180 dps | 250 dps | 650 dps | 700 dps | |||
3 | 75 | 5,000 | 4.5 seconds | 400 dps | 150 dps | 225 dps | 300 dps | 700 dps | 800 dps | +1.3x | ||
4 | 200 | 10,000 | 4.5 seconds | 450 dps | 175 dps | 255 dps | 350 dps | 750 dps | 900 dps | |||
5 | 400 | 20,000 | 4 seconds | 550 dps | 200 dps | 300 dps | 400 dps | 800 dps | 1200 dps | |||
6 | 750 | 30,000 | 4 seconds | 600 dps | 225 dps | 330 dps | 450 dps | 850 dps | 1300 dps | |||
7 | 1,000 | 40,000 | 3.5 seconds | 650 dps | 250 dps | 375 dps | 500 dps | 900 dps | 1400 dps | +1.6x | ||
8 | 1,250 | 50,000 | 3.5 seconds | 700 dps | 300 dps | 450 dps | 550 dps | 950 dps | 1500 dps | |||
9 | 1,500 | 60,000 | 50 | 3 seconds | 800 dps | 350 dps | 525 dps | 600 dps | 1000 dps | 1600 dps | ||
10 | 2,000 | 75,000 | 2.5 seconds | 900 dps | 400 dps | 600 dps | 700 dps | 1100 dps | 1800 dps |
*After being fed with Plant Food and throwing large leaves, all leaves thrown normally after that will be powered.
Level upgrades (China only)
Costumed (China only)
Nightshade now hurls all three of his plant food leaves at once, which does more damage. However, he only does this once.
Strategies
Nightshade's main strength is his high potential effectiveness for his fairly low price of 75 sun. When powered by Moonflower, a Nightshade can deal almost three times as much damage as an average Peashooter, and will, therefore, have little problem can make much quicker work of Basic and Buckethead Zombies. However, this ability could also be considered a downside, as Nightshade is heavily dependent on Moonflower which is a plant with a relatively slow recharge rate, and Nightshade's performance when not powered is below average due to him not being able to regrow his leaves. Nightshade also faces great challenges in the world he is introduced in, as the amount of methods used by the horde to deter straight-shooting projectiles, plus the sheer zombie density can render even the most powerful of single target plants insignificant. But player can plant it with Dusk Lobber because Dusk Lobber can do a splash damage to the zombies and Nightshade can more easily to kill them.
When given plant food, the leaves the Nightshade uses will remain as the powered color, and also have changed damage when in both melee and ranged form. In melee form, he is capable of defeating a Conehead Zombie with one leaf, and a Buckethead Zombie with three leaves. Tombstones enter their second degrade when hit with one ranged leaf, which occurs at 160 damage per shot.
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Gallery
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Trivia
- He reuses attacking sounds from Cactus.
- When he is not powered, he would sometimes have powered leaves instead of the basic purple leaves.
- When he attacks whether powered or not, his leaves turn purple. This is only a visual error.
- However, if fed Plant Food, his leaves remain as the powered leaves.
- When he attacks whether powered or not, his leaves turn purple. This is only a visual error.
- If one looks closely, his costume slightly shakes during his idle animation.
- This is because every other animation loop, he blinks his eyes. This causes the shades to shake a little because of the blink.
- He resembles Bloomerang in terms of appearance.
- If Nightshade is near a zombie and Plant Food is used on him, Nightshade will instead do his melee attack, opposed to his Plant Food effect. He will not continue the Plant Food attack after the zombie is defeated.
- Him, along with Red Stinger, are the only plants that cannot be repaired with Wall-nut First Aid despite visually degrading.
- Nightshade will gain an additional 700 DPS on his melee attacks and an additional 1100 DPS on its Plant Food melee attacks while boosted by Conceal-mint, but he will be powered and never do melee attack while boosted by it.
See also
V · T · E |
Plants vs. Zombies | |
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Day | Peashooter · Sunflower · Cherry Bomb · Wall-nut · Potato Mine · Snow Pea · Chomper · Repeater |
Night | Puff-shroom · Sun-shroom · Fume-shroom · Grave Buster · Hypno-shroom · Scaredy-shroom · Ice-shroom · Doom-shroom |
Pool | Lily Pad · Squash · Threepeater · Tangle Kelp · Jalapeno · Spikeweed · Torchwood · Tall-nut |
Fog | Sea-shroom · Plantern · Cactus · Blover · Split Pea · Starfruit · Pumpkin · Magnet-shroom |
Roof | Cabbage-pult · Flower Pot · Kernel-pult · Coffee Bean · Garlic · Umbrella Leaf · Marigold · Melon-pult |
Upgrades | Gatling Pea · Twin Sunflower · Gloom-shroom · Cattail · Winter Melon · Gold Magnet · Spikerock · Cob Cannon |
Others | Imitater · Explode-o-nut · Giant Wall-nut · Giant Sunflower · Giant Marigold · Sprout |
Plants vs. Zombies Social Edition | |
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Normal | Peashooter · Sunflower · Cherry Bomb · Wall-nut · Potato Mine · Chomper · Repeater · Puff-shroom · Scaredy-shroom · Snow Pea · Sun-shroom · Fume-shroom · Grave Buster · Lily Pad · Squash · Spikeweed · Tangle Kelp · Torchwood · Sea-shroom · Jalapeno · Coffee Bean · Tall-nut · Pumpkin · Magnet-shroom · Blover · Melon-pult · Cactus |
Premium | Pickled Pepper · Icy Fume-shroom · Fire-shroom · Flamewood · Vine-nut · Gatling Pea · Twin Sunflower · Gloom-shroom · Winter Melon · Super Chomper · Future Star · Calm Chuck |
Plants vs. Zombies Adventures | |
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Normal | Peashooter · Sunflower · Aspearagus · Wall-nut · Cherry Bomb · Popcorn · Beet · Snow Pea · Jalapeño · Magnet Plant · Flaming Pea · Shamrock · Bamboo Shoot · Repeater · Chilly Pepper · Twin Sunflower |
VIPs | Sweet Pea · Beeshooter · Hard-nut · Acespearagus · Power Flower · Beetboxer · Ice Queen Pea · Shamrockstar · Bamboom |
Others | Trees |
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) | |
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Ancient Egypt | Peashooter · Sunflower · Wall-nut · Cabbage-pult · Bloomerang · Iceberg Lettuce · Grave Buster · Bonk Choy · Repeater · Twin Sunflower · Snow Pea · Torchwood |
Pirate Seas | Kernel-pult · Snapdragon · Power Lily · Spikeweed · Spring Bean · Coconut Cannon · Spikerock · Lightning Reed · Tall-nut |
Wild West | Threepeater · Squash · Split Pea · Chili Bean · Jalapeno · Pea Pod · Melon-pult · Winter Melon · Imitater |
Kongfu World | Radish · Fire Gourd · Heavenly Peach · Bamboo-shoot |
Far Future | Laser Bean · Blover · Citron · E.M.Peach · Infi-nut · Magnifying Grass · Tile Turnip · Starfruit |
Dark Ages | Hypno-shroom · Sun-shroom · Puff-shroom · Fume-shroom · Sun Bean · Pea-nut · Magnet-shroom · Oak Archer · Coffee Bean · Plantern |
Big Wave Beach | Acidic Citrus · Lotuspot · Lily Pad · Bowling Bulb · Banana Launcher · Guacodile · Tangle Kelp · Homing Thistle |
Frostbite Caves | Hurrikale · Fire Peashooter · Hot Potato · Pepper-pult · Chard Guard · Stunion · Rafflesia · Tornacorn |
Sky City | Rotobaga · Cycloque · Aspiragus · Saucer Squash · Board Beans · Lantern Cherry · Ampthurium · Spinnapple |
Lost City | Lava Guava · Red Stinger · A.K.E.E. · Stallia · Gold Leaf · Toadstool · Jackfruit |
Neon Mixtape Tour | MC Glory · Phat Beet · Thyme Warp · Celery Stalker · Spore-shroom · Garlic · Intensive Carrot · Cactus |
Jurassic Marsh | Primal Peashooter · Primal Wall-nut · Perfume-shroom · Primal Sunflower · Primal Potato Mine · Primal Rafflesia · Dinonip · Thorns · Mastercane |
Modern Day | Shadow-shroom · Caulipower · Moonflower · Grimrose · Nightshade · Dusk Lobber · Blooming Heart |
Steam Ages | Gold Bloom · Flat-shroom · Passionflower · Lotus Root · Fanilla · Lily of Alchemy · Berry Blaster |
Renaissance Age | Aloe · Kinnikannon · Wax Guard · Oil Olive · Ruby Red · Dartichoke |
Heian Age | Water Lotus · Splitting Stephania · Kunai Tupistra · Windbreak Dendrobium · Orchid Chef |
Monthly special | Pyro-shroom · Carrotillery · Cryo-shroom · Dandelion · Aggro Brocco · Pomegunate · Chomper · Sweet Potato · Lord Bamboo · Sap-fling · Ghost Pepper · Chest-nut · Bambrook · Zorrose · Magic-shroom · Electric Blueberry · R.A.D Missiles · Endurian · Pumpkin Witch · Sunflower Singer · Snowy Cotton · Guerrequila · Monkeyfruit · Plumping Plummy · Dragonfruit · Angel Starfruit · Gatling Pea · Match Flower · Firebloom Queen · Cattail · Grapeshot · Cold Snapdragon · Shrinking Violet · Cob Cannon · Apple Mortar · Witch Hazel · Escape Root · Electric Currant · Sumo Melon · Wasabi Whip · Explode-O-Nut · Parsnip · Missile Toe · Kiwibeast · Electric Peashooter · Hot Date · Icy Currant · Trump Tulip · Auberninja · Banana Dancer · Dual Pistol Pinecone · Narcissus · Alarm Arrowhead · Holly Barrier · Shadow Peashooter · Snap Pea · Frostbloom Queen · Sling Pea · Zapdragon · Electrici-tea · Imp Pear · Strawburst · Egrett Flower · Goo Peashooter · Bud-minton · Curling Corms · Pokra · Dollarweed Drummer · Ultomato · Shadow Vanilla · Bromel Blade |
Others | Potato Mine · Tactical Cuke |
Removed plants | Rotten Red |
Plants vs. Zombies Online | |
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Player's House | Sunflower · Peashooter · Wall-nut · Potato Mine |
Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum | Bruce Bamboo · Carrot Rocket · Pomegranate-pult · Dandelion · Venus Flytrap · Wax Gourd · Sod |
Ancient Egypt | Bloomerang · Bonk Choy · Grave Buster · Iceberg Lettuce · Cabbage-pult |
Pirate Seas | Snapdragon · Spikeweed · Spring Bean · Kernel-pult · Coconut Cannon · Narcissus · Endurian · Spikerock · Pineapple Cannon · Threepeater |
Far Future | Laser Bean · Blover · Citron · E.M.Peach · Tile Turnip · Ganoderma · Banana Tree · Nitration Mushroom · Infi-nut · Magnifying Grass |
East Sea Dragon Palace | Oxygen Algae · Garlic · Bubble Flower · Electric Anemone |
Upgrades | Twin Sunflower · Repeater |
VIPs | Winter Melon |
Power Ups | Cherry Bomb · Jalapeno |
Premium | Squash · Snow Pea · Tall-nut |
Adventure Mode only | Magic Vine · Split Pea · Chili Bean · Lightning Reed · Pea Pod · Melon-pult · Starfruit · Chomper · Fire Peashooter · Cattail · Zorrose · Clivia · Sap-fling · Acidic Citrus · Magic-shroom · Ghost Pepper · Guacodile · Hurrikale · Plantern · Oak Archer · Homing Thistle · Pepper-pult · Radish · Toadstool · Blooming Heart · Red Stinger · Electric Blueberry · A.K.E.E. · Moonflower · Guerrequila · Aspiragus · Pumpkin Witch · Mine Fruit · Sea Anemone · Lychee Drill · Sea Starfruit |
Plants vs. Zombies 3 | |
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Common | Puff-Shroom · Buttercup · Garlic · Potato Mine · Pushywillow · Wall-Nut · Chard Guard · Peashooter · Spikeweed · Cabbage-Pult · Kernel-Pult · Bonk Choy · Caramel Popcorn · Lightning Reed · Melon-Pult |
Rare | Shuffle Truffle · Blockbuster · Butternut Squash · Ragweed · Sawgrass · Squash · Fire Peashooter · Pine Needler · Snow Pea · Bamboo Shoots · Night Cap |
Epic | Aloe Vera · Sweet Potato · Hydrangea · Dogwood · Chomper · Gravitree · Flak Seed · Lemon-Aid · Gloom-Shroom · Snapdragon · Starfruit |
Legendary | Fairy Ring Mushroom · Kalestorm |
Others | Sunflower · Cherry Bomb · Star Tree · Magic Beans |
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