Plant Family (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For the version in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, see Plant Family.

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 14 families in the game.

Fila-mint

• Color: Cyan
• Icon: A lightning bolt

The Fila-mint family is mainly composed of electric plants, as well as Magnifying Grass and Ultomato:

Fila-mint

Lightning Reed

Citron

E.M.Peach

Magnifying Grass

Electric Blueberry

Electric Currant

Electric Peashooter

Electrici-tea

Ultomato

Power Vine

Bzzz Button

Electric Peel

Reinforce-mint

• Color: Tan
• Icon: Fences

The Reinforce-mint family is entirely composed of defensive plants and support plants:

Reinforce-mint

Wall-nut

Tall-nut

Infi-nut

Pea-nut

Sweet Potato

Chard Guard

Endurian

Primal Wall-nut

Aloe

Holly Barrier

Pumpkin

Gumnut

Blockoli

Bean Sprout

Guard-shroom

Bombard-mint

• Color: Orange
• Icon: A traditional bomb with a burning fuse

The Bombard-mint family is entirely composed of explosive plants:

Bombard-mint

Potato Mine

Cherry Bomb

Strawburst

Grapeshot

Primal Potato Mine

Escape Root

Explode-O-Nut

Bombegranate

Explode-o-Vine

Boom Balloon Flower

Teleportato Mine

Bud'uh Boom

Doom-shroom

Arma-mint

• Color: Brown
• Icon: A firing cannon

The Arma-mint family is composed of lobbed-shot, launching, and cannon plants:

Arma-mint

Cabbage-pult

Kernel-pult

Coconut Cannon

Melon-pult

Banana Launcher

A.K.E.E.

Apple Mortar

Sling Pea

Blastberry Vine

Turkey-pult

Stickybomb Rice

BoomBerry

Mangofier

Contain-mint

• Color: Gray
• Icon: An hourglass

The Contain-mint family is mainly composed of plants that typically don't belong in any other family. The majority of such debuff enemies; most plants slow zombies down without ice, while Magnet-shroom removes zombies' metal-based defenses.

Contain-mint

Grave Buster

Spring Bean

Blover

Magnet-shroom

Lily Pad

Sap-fling

Hurrikale

Stunion

Stallia

Thyme Warp

Dazey Chain

Olive Pit

Draftodil

Buttercup

Tomb Tangler

Cran Jelly

Blast Spinner

Spear-mint

• Color: Dark Gray
• Icon: A pair of scissors

The Spear-mint family is entirely composed of plants with spikes or piercing attacks:

Spear-mint

Bloomerang

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Laser Bean

Homing Thistle

Cactus

Pokra

Dartichoke

Heath Seeker

Bramble Bush

SeaFlora

Bamboo Spartan

Aqua Vine

Sweetheart Snare

Pepper-mint

• Color: Red
• Icon: Flames

The Pepper-mint family plants is mainly composed of heat-based plants, as well as Ghost Pepper:

Pepper-mint

Snapdragon

Jalapeno

Hot Potato

Pepper-pult

Fire Peashooter

Lava Guava

Ghost Pepper

Jack O' Lantern

Hot Date

Pyre Vine

Inferno

Meteor Flower

Blaze Leaf

Enchant-mint

• Color: Magenta
• Icon: A star-shaped wand emitting sparks

The Enchant-mint family is entirely composed of plants that utilize magic in some capacity:

Enchant-mint

Power Lily

Imitater

Tile Turnip

Hypno-shroom

Intensive Carrot

Shrinking Violet

Witch Hazel

Caulipower

Zoybean Pod

Hocus Crocus

Levitater

MayBee

Znake Lily

Winter-mint

• Color: Sky blue
• Icon: A snowflake

The Winter-mint family is entirely composed of ice-based plants:

Winter-mint

Iceberg Lettuce

Snow Pea

Winter Melon

Cold Snapdragon

Missile Toe

Ice Bloom

Boingsetta

Iceweed

Chilly Pepper

Ice-shroom

Frost Bonnet

Appease-mint

• Color: Chartreuse
• Icon: A Peashooter's head

The Appease-mint family is composed of peashooter plants and plants that shoot projectiles in one direction, as well as Torchwood and Tumbleweed.

Appease-mint

Peashooter

Repeater

Threepeater

Split Pea

Torchwood

Pea Pod

Starfruit

Rotobaga

Dandelion

Red Stinger

Primal Peashooter

Bowling Bulb

Tumbleweed

Pea Vine

Mega Gatling Pea

Ail-mint

• Color: Purple
• Icon: A flask with a cross in the middle

The Ail-mint family is composed of poisoning plants and mushrooms:

Ail-mint

Chili Bean

Puff-shroom

Fume-shroom

Gaclic

Spore-shroom

Perfume-shroom

Blooming Heart

Goo Peashooter

Imp Pear

Puffball

Vamporcini

Scaredy-shroom

Nightcap

Sea-shroom

Enforce-mint

• Color: Green
• Icon: A very muscular arm

The Enforce-mint family is mainly composed of melee plants, or plants that attack up close:

Enforce-mint

Bonk Choy

Squash

Chomper

Tangle Kelp

Guacodile

Phat Beet

Celery Stalker

Wasabi Whip

Kiwibeast

Parsnip

Snap Pea

Headbutter Lettuce

Tiger Grass

Rhubarbarian

Bun Chi

Hammeruit

Conceal-mint

• Color: Medium purple
• Icon: A vortex

The Conceal-mint family is entirely composed of shadow plants:

Conceal-mint

Moonflower

Nightshade

Shadow-shroom

Dusk Lobber

Grimrose

Shadow Peashooter

Murkadamia Nut

Gloom Vine

Noctarine

Dragon Bruit

Enlighten-mint

• Color: Yellow
• Icon: Sun

The Enlighten-mint family is entirely composed of sun producing plants:

Enlighten-mint

Sunflower

Twin Sunflower

Sun-shroom

Sun Bean

Toadstool

Gold Leaf

Primal Sunflower

Gold Bloom

Solar Tomato

Shine Vine

Solar Sage

Sundew Tangler

Strategies

Whenever you plant a Power Mint on the board, it'll do some damage or affect the zombies in some form, then boost the plants on the lawn that are members of the appropriate family. Boosting plants will increase their damage, toughness, sun-producing, and/or unique abilities to the plants' max level. 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, unless the plant is at Mastery level.

Trivia

• Contain-mint is the largest plant family in the game, with 18 members.
  • The Conceal-mint and Winter-mint families are the smallest at 10 members.
• The Appease-mint family contains the most amount of plants gotten from adventure mode at 9.
  • The Winter-mint and Enchant-mint families contain the least at 2 each.
• Conceal-mint and Enchant-mint are the only families that do not have plants with their properties overlapping in any other family. Any and all plants with multiple abilities, but including abilities that align with these families, are primarily affiliated with these families rather than any others.
• There are some plants that could fit into other families, but are in other families based on how they are played:
  • Enlighten-mint family: Moonflower is not a member, despite being capable of generating sun.
    • Magnifying Grass is wholly dependent on the existence of sun, yet is also not a member.
  • Enforce-mint family: Potato Mine, Snapdragon, Spikeweed, Spikerock, Spring Bean, Chard Guard, Endurian, Strawburst, Jack O' Lantern, Cold Snapdragon, Ghost Pepper, Lava Guava, Shrinking Violet (also despite the Power Mint to shrink zombies), Hot Date, Torchwood, Electric Currant, Electrici-tea, Imp Pear, Pyre Vine, Gumnut, Olive Pit, Murkadamia Nut, Gloom Vine, and Pokra are not members, despite all being melee plants.
  • Appease-mint family: Snow Pea, Pea-nut, Fire Peashooter, Electric Peashooter, Shadow Peashooter, Sling Pea, Snap Pea and Goo Peashooter are not members despite all being pea plants, as they have additional attributes that differ them from traditional straight-shooting plants.
    • Despite all not being pea plants, Bowling Bulb, Red Stinger, Starfruit, Dandelion, and Rotobaga are in the Appease-mint family since they fire single target projectiles, while Tumbleweed and Torchwood belong there so they synergize with each other when Appease-mint is on the field.
  • Arma-mint family: Blooming Heart, Dusk Lobber, Winter Melon, Spore-shroom, and Sap-fling are not members, despite all being lobbed-shot plants, due to their various other properties.
  • Spear-mint family: Fume-shroom is not a member despite having an attack that pierces multiple zombies, as he is more of a fungus.
    • Despite being plants with spikes, Endurian and Holly Barrier are not in the Spear-mint family, because they are also defensive plants.
  • Reinforce-mint family: Red Stinger, Garlic, Torchwood, Explode-O-Nut, Celery Stalker, Kiwibeast, Hot Date, Murkadamia Nut, Explode-o-Vine, Headbutter Lettuce, and Buttercup are not members, despite being defensive plants.
  • Bombard-mint family: Coconut Cannon, Dandelion, and Blastberry Vine are not members, despite all being explosive plants, as Dandelion fires straight projectiles and the other two are cannon and lobbed-shot plants, respectively.
  • Pepper-mint family: Wasabi Whip and Torchwood are not members, despite being fire plants. The former has a short range, while the latter works exclusively with straight-shooting plants. Frost Bonnet has fire attack mode, but its default mode is ice.
  • Winter-mint family: Despite Hurrikale blowing icy winds to slow down zombies, he is not a member, as he is mostly used to push zombies back.
  • Fila-mint family: Magnet-shroom, Laser Bean, and Infi-nut are not members, despite all being electrical plants.
  • Ail-mint family: Stunion (when reached level 5), Shadow-shroom, Sun-shroom, Magnet-shroom, Hypno-shroom, Toadstool, Pokra, Stallia, and Dragon Bruit are not members despite all being poison plants/mushrooms.
  • Contain-mint family: Iceberg Lettuce, Kernel-pult, Chili Bean, E.M.Peach, Garlic, Primal Peashooter, Snow Pea, Cold Snapdragon (only when the two aforementioned plants use their Plant Food ability), Missile Toe, Solar Tomato, Imp Pear, Apple Mortar, Tumbleweed, Ice Bloom, Gumnut, Shine Vine, Puffball, Stickybomb Rice, Pokra, and Ice-shroom are not members, despite all having abilities to stun/slow zombies.
• Some plants contradict the characteristics of their respective families but were categorized so for various reasons.
  • Magnet-shroom, Blover and Grave Buster are from the Contain-mint family, but their primary function isn't stalling zombies. They were likely categorized so for their containing properties.
    • In Blover's case, he is categorised because he is similar to Hurrikale, since they both push zombies back. However, Blover usually blows flying and floating zombies away.
  • Ghost Pepper is from the Pepper-mint family but lacks any fire properties. She was categorized there due to being a pepper.
  • Despite not being an electric plant, Magnifying Grass and Ultomato are in the Fila-mint family, as their attacks and appearances are somewhat electric.
• Power Lily, Imitater, Tile Turnip, Gold Bloom, Gold Leaf, Perfume-shroom, and Blover are part of Power Mint Families, but they don't receive boosts from the Power Mints.
• Marigold is not in any plant families.
• Bowling Bulb was formerly in Enforce-mint family, and Torchwood was formerly in Pepper-mint family. Similarly, they’ve both been moved to Appease-mint family.

See also

• Plants
• Plant Family, as in the Chinese version
• Mint
• Power Mints
• Arena

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