Plants (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see plants.

Plants are living organisms that belong to the Plantae kingdom. They obtain most of their energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. However, not all plants absorb energy via photosynthesis. They are the protagonists of Plants vs. Zombies and the player's main defense against the undead assailants.

The plants also populate the Zen Garden, available on the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Android, Nintendo DS, iPad, and iPhone versions of Plants vs. Zombies. In the Zen Garden, the player is able to use the Watering Can, Bug Spray and fertilizer to grow plants and earn money.

Audio

Sound	Description
	A plant planted on the ground or a flower pot.
	A plant planted in the pool or on a lily pad.

All the seed packets in the PC version. The purple ones in the bottom row are bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.

All Imitater plants

Overview

On top of each seed packets, there is a phrase: "Bloom and Doom Seed Co." (except in the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSiWare, Android, and iOS version of Plants vs. Zombies), "BLOOM & DOOM" being a name that PopCap brainstormed when they were looking for names for Plants vs. Zombies.

Projectiles

To fight zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, peas are fired from peashooting plants, such as Peashooters, Snow Peas and Threepeaters. Spikes are fired from Cattails and Cacti. Spores are shot from Puff-shrooms, Scaredy-shrooms, and Sea-shrooms. Fumes are shot from Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms. Lobbed-shot plants each fire their own specific kind of projectile such cabbage or melons. Stars are fired from Starfruits. Lobbed-shot plants such as Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, Melon-pults, and Winter Melons can also shoot over shields and hit Snorkel Zombies while they are underwater, although they cannot hit Balloon Zombies, despite the fact that they shoot high up, and corn cobs are launched from Cob Cannons.

Note: The table below is about the damage of the projectiles. The numbers are the amount of peas equivalent in damage to the projectile, and a normal Zombie takes ten peas to kill.

Projectile shooter name	Damage	Projectile	Equivalent in peas
Peashooter, Repeater, Threepeater, Split Pea, Gatling Pea	Average	Pea or fire pea after passing a Torchwood	1 (pea), Varies1 (fire peas' splash damage), 2 (fire pea)
Snow Pea	Average, slows zombies	Frozen pea or pea after passing a Torchwood	1, halves zombies' speed (frozen pea)
Puff-shroom, Scaredy-shroom, Sea-shroom	Average	Spore	1
Fume-shroom, Gloom-shroom	Average, penetrates Shields	Fumes	1
Cactus, Cattail	Average, pops balloons	Spike	1, pops balloons
Starfruit	Average (for each star)	Star	1
Cabbage-pult	Average	Cabbage	2
Kernel-pult	Weak (kernel), average (butter)	Kernel or butter	1 (kernel), 2 and stops zombie movement (butter)
Melon-pult	Powerful, area of effect	Melon	4 (target), Varies2 (splash)
Winter Melon	Very powerful, area of effect, slows zombies	Frozen melon	4 (target), Varies2 (splash), halves zombies' speed
Cob Cannon	Massive, area of effect, armour penetrating	Corn cob	90 (three-by-three area)

1. Does 14÷[number of zombies hit by splash], adjusted to between 0.05 and 0.65 pea-equivalent (inclusive).
2. Does 28÷[number of zombies hit by splash], adjusted to between 0.05 and 1.3 pea-equivalent (inclusive).

Pea

Frozen pea

Spore/Fume

Fire pea

Spike

Star

Cabbage

Kernel

Butter

Melon

Frozen melon

Corn cob

Type of plants

Plants received from Adventure Mode

At the end of each level of the player's first playthrough of Adventure Mode, a new seed packet of a plant made by the Bloom & Doom Seed Company is received from the last zombie to get destroyed. There is a theory that Crazy Dave throws them, according to a Sneak Peek to the Xbox 360 Version. Once the Suburban Almanac is acquired in level 2-4, a sometimes humorous quote 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 key is found, Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies is unlocked and more plants can be purchased with Money. These plants are called upgrade plants, with more of them becoming available as the player progresses through Adventure Mode. They are the Gatling Pea ($5000), Twin Sunflower ($5000), Gloom-shroom ($7500), Cattail ($10,000), Winter Melon ($10,000), Gold Magnet ($3000), Spikerock ($7500), and Cob Cannon ($20,000). Imitater ($30,000) is also available here, but requires completing Adventure Mode before he can be bought.

Sun producing plants

Sun producing plants are vital for regular levels in order to plant. 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. In Survival: Endless, upgrade plants cost 50 more sun to plant for each of that particular plant on the lawn at the time of planting. Below are the costs of sun producing plants and how much sun is produced.

Name	Cost	Sun per production
Sunflower	50	25
Sun-shroom	25	15 before growing, then 25 sun after growing (grows after producing five small sun)
Twin Sunflower	150	50 sun per production
Giant Sunflower	50	50 sun per production

Type	Value	Produced by
Big sun	50	Sky in Sunny Day
Normal sun	25	Sky in daytime levels, Sunflower, Sun-shroom after growing, Twin Sunflower, Giant Sunflower
Small sun	15	Sun-shroom before growing

Money producing plants

The Marigold is the only money producing plant, but in the Zen Garden, all plants will drop gold coins when fertilized, happy and also drop diamonds when fully grown. Feeding chocolate to plants in the Zen Garden will produce coins faster. Gold Magnets and Stinky the Snail aid in money production as well.

Morticulturalist Achievement

To unlock the Morticulturalist achievement, you must collect all 49 plants, including the upgrade plants and the Imitater in Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies. Be prepared to be money farming for a long time, because all plants from Crazy Dave when added together cost $98,000.

List of plants

Recharge time:

• Fast – 7.5 seconds
• Slow – 30 seconds
• Very slow – 50 seconds

Notes:

• VM stands for Versus Mode.
• HW stands for Heavy Weapon.

Almanac plants

Name	Image	Description	Unlocked	Health	Attack Damage	Damage per second	Average Attack Interval (seconds)	Sun cost	Recharge
Peashooter		Peashooters are your first line of defense. They shoot peas at attacking zombies.	At the beginning	300	20	13.333	1.425	100	Fast
Sunflower		Sunflowers are essential for you to produce extra sun. Try planting as many as you can!	Beating Level 1-1	300	-	-	24.25	50	Fast
Cherry Bomb		Cherry Bombs can blow up all zombies in an area. They have a short fuse so plant them near zombies.	Beating Level 1-2	Infinite	18001	36	1.2	150	Very slow
Wall-nut		Wall-nuts have hard shells which you can use to protect your other plants.	Beating Level 1-3	4000	Varies3 (Wall-nut bowling, Wall-nut bowling 2)	Varies3 (Wall-nut bowling, Wall-nut bowling 2)	-	50	Slow
Potato Mine		Potato Mines pack a powerful punch, but they need a while to arm themselves. You should plant them ahead of zombies. They will explode on contact.	Beating Level 1-5	300	1800	80	15 (arming)	25	Slow
Snow Pea		Snow Peas shoot frozen peas that damage and slow the enemy.	Beating Level 1-6	300	20	13.333	1.425	175 150 (VM) 100 (HW)	Fast
Chomper		Chompers can devour a zombie whole, but they are vulnerable while chewing.	Beating Level 1-7	300	Infinite 402	57.143 (chomp) 40 (bite)	42 (chewing)	150	Fast
Repeater		Repeaters fire two peas at a time.	Beating Level 1-8	300	20 (×2)	26.667	1.425	200 150 (VM)	Fast
Puff-shroom		Puff-shrooms are cheap, but can only fire a short distance.	Beating Level 1-10	300	20	13.333	1.425	0	Fast
Sun-shroom		Sun-shrooms give small sun at first and normal sun later.	Beating Level 2-1	300	-	-	24.25	25	Fast
Fume-shroom		Fume-shrooms shoot fumes that can pass through screen doors.	Beating Level 2-2	300	20	13.333	1.425	75	Fast
Grave Buster		Plant Grave Busters on graves to remove the graves.	Beating Level 2-3	300	-	-	4.5 (destroying a grave)	75	Fast Very slow (VM)
Hypno-shroom		When eaten, Hypno-shrooms will make a zombie turn around and fight for you.	Beating Level 2-5	300	-	-	-	75	Slow
Scaredy-shroom		Scaredy-shrooms are long-ranged shooters that hide when enemies get near them.	Beating Level 2-6	300	20	13.333	1.425	25	Fast
Ice-shroom		Ice-shrooms temporarily immobilize all zombies on the screen.	Beating Level 2-7	300 (asleep) Infinite (exploding)	20	0.4	1	75	Very slow
Doom-shroom		Doom-shrooms destroy everything in a large area and leave a crater that can't be planted on.	Beating Level 2-8	300 (asleep) Infinite (exploding)	18001	36	1	125	Very slow
Lily Pad		Lily pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them.	Beating Level 2-10	300	-	-	-	25	Fast
Squash		Squashes will smash the first zombie that gets close to it.	Beating Level 3-1	300 Infinite (squashing)	1800	60	??? (squashing)	50 75 (VM)	Slow
Threepeater		Threepeaters shoot peas in three lanes.	Beating Level 3-2	300	20 (×3)	13.333	1.425	325 200 (VM) 400 (HW)	Fast Very slow (VM)
Tangle Kelp		Tangle Kelp are aquatic plants that pull the first zombie that nears them underwater.	Beating Level 3-3	300 Infinite (tangling)	Infinite	80	-	25	Slow
Jalapeno		Jalapenos destroy an entire lane of zombies.	Beating Level 3-5	Infinite	18001	36	1	125	Very slow
Spikeweed		Spikeweeds pop tires and hurt any zombies that step on them.	Beating Level 3-6	300 One smash	20	20	1	100	Fast
Torchwood		Torchwoods turn peas that pass through them into fireballs that deal twice as much damage.	Beating Level 3-7	300	-	-	-	175	Fast
Tall-nut		Tall-nuts are heavy-duty wall plants that can't be vaulted over.	Beating Level 3-8	8000	-	-	-	125	Slow
Sea-shroom		Sea-shrooms are aquatic plants that shoot short ranged spores.	Beating Level 3-10	300	20	13.333	1.425	0	Slow
Plantern		Planterns light up an area, letting you see through fog.	Beating Level 4-1	300	-	-	-	25	Slow
Cactus		Cactuses shoot spikes that can hit both ground and air targets.	Beating Level 4-2	300	20	13.333	1.425	125 100 (VM)	Fast
Blover		Blovers blow away all balloon zombies and fog.	Beating Level 4-3	Infinite	-	-	-	100	Fast
Split Pea		Split Peas shoot peas forward and backwards.	Beating Level 4-5	300	20 (forward) 20 (×2) (backward)	13.333 (forward) 26.667 (backward)	1.425	125	Fast Very slow (VM)
Starfruit		Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions.	Beating Level 4-6	300	20 (×5)	13.333 (x5)	1.425	125 175 (VM)	Fast
Pumpkin		Pumpkins protect plants that are within their shells.	Beating Level 4-7	4000	-	-	-	125	Slow
Magnet-shroom		Magnet-shrooms remove helmets and other metal objects from zombies.	Beating Level 4-8	300	-	-	15	100	Fast
Cabbage-pult		Cabbage-pults hurl cabbages at the enemy.	Beating Level 4-10	300	40	13.333	2.925	100	Fast
Flower Pot		Flower Pots let you plant on the roof.	Beating Level 5-1	300	-	-	-	25	Fast
Kernel-pult		Kernel-pults fling corn kernels and butter at zombies.	Beating Level 5-2	300	20 (kernel) 40 (butter)	6.667 (kernel) 13.333 (butter)	2.925	100	Fast
Coffee Bean		Use Coffee Beans to wake up sleeping mushrooms.	Beating Level 5-3	Infinite	-	-	1	75 25 (VM)	Fast
Garlic		Garlic diverts zombies into other lanes.	Beating Level 5-5	400	-	-	-	50 75 (VM)	Fast Very slow (VM)
Umbrella Leaf		Umbrella Leaves protect nearby plants from bungees and catapults.	Beating Level 5-6	300	-	-	-	100	Fast
Marigold4		Marigolds give you silver and gold coins.	Beating Level 5-7	300	-	-	24.25	50	Slow
Melon-pult4		Melon-pults do heavy damage to groups of zombies.	Beating Level 5-8	300	80 (target) Varies6 (splash)	26.667 (target) Varies6 (splash)	2.925	300	Fast Very slow (VM)
Gatling Pea45		Gatling Peas shoot four peas at a time.	Beating Level 3-4; $5000	300	20 (×4)	53.333	1.425	250 (+200)	Very slow
Twin Sunflower45		Twin Sunflowers give twice as much sun as a normal sunflower.	Beating Level 3-4; $5000	300	-	-	24.25	150 (+50)	Very slow
Gloom-shroom45		Gloom-shrooms release heavy fumes in an area around themselves.	Beating Level 4-4; $7500	300	20 (×8)	100 (x8)	0.2 (initial attack) 1.925 (follow-up attacks)	150 (+75)	Very slow
Cattail45		Cattails can attack any lane and shoot down balloon zombies too.	Beating Level 4-4; $10,000	300	20 (×2)	26.667	1.425	225 (+25)	Very slow
Winter Melon45		Winter Melons do heavy damage and slow groups of zombies.	Beating Adventure Mode; $10,000	300	80 (target) Varies6 (splash)	26.667 (target) Varies6 (splash)	2.925	200 (+300)	Very slow
Gold Magnet45		Gold Magnets collect coins and diamonds for you.	Beating Level 5-1; $3000	300	-	-	10	50 (+100)	Very slow
Spikerock45		Spikerocks pop multiple tires and damage zombies that walk over it.	Beating Level 5-1; $7500	450 Nine smashes	20 (×2)	40	1	125 (+100)	Very slow
Cob Cannon45		Click on the Cob Cannon to launch deadly cobs of corn.	Beating Adventure Mode; $20,000	300	18001	51.799	??? (first cob) 34.75 (every reload afterwards) 3.73 (landing)	500 (+100x2)	Very slow
Imitater47		Imitaters let you use two of the same plant during a level!	Beating Adventure Mode; $30,000	300 (transforming)	-	-	??? (transforming)	Same as imitated plant

Non-almanac plants

Plant	Image	Description	Unlocked	Health	Attack Damage	Damage per second	Average Attack Interval (seconds)	Sun cost	Recharge
Explode-o-nut4		Explode-o-nuts explode upon contact with zombies.	Used in Wall-nut Bowling levels	4000	18001	-	-	0	Very slow
Giant Wall-nut8		Giant Wall-nut can crush a row of zombies or have large amounts of health.	Used in Wall-nut Bowling 2 and Big Time	4000 (Wall-nut Bowling 2) 8000 (Big Time)	Infinite (Wall-nut bowling 2)	-	-	Free 50 (Big Time)	None Slow (Big Time)
Reverse Repeater		Reverse Repeaters fire two peas backwards at a time in Vasebreaker.	Used in all Vasebreaker levels except for Vasebreaker and Hokey Pokey	300	20 (×2)	26.667	1.425	200	N/A
Giant Sunflower8		Giant Sunflower produces one big sun that is worth 50 instead of 25 from a regular sunflower.	Used in Big Time	600	-	-	24.25	50	Fast
Giant Marigold8		Giant Marigold drops two silver or gold coins at once.	Used in Big Time	600	-	-	24.25	50	Slow
Sprout7		Sprouts let you water them in the Zen Garden.	N/A	300	-	-	-	0	N/A
Tree of Wisdom7		When fed Tree Food in the Zen Garden, it gives the player tips on how to play the game.	Beating Adventure Mode; $10,000	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A

1. Armour-penetrating (ignores headwares, shields, etc.).
2. Only towards Gargantuar, Giga-gargantuar, and Dr. Zomboss.
3. Does 900 damage to headwares, 400 to shields, and 1800 otherwise.
4. This plant does not exist in Java Edition.
5. This plant is an upgrade plant and can be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
6. Does 560÷[number of zombies hit by splash], adjusted to between 1 and 26 damage (inclusive).
7. This plant can be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
8. This is the bigger form of a plant in the Canceled mini-game Big Time.

Trivia

All plants (hacking used)

All plants on PopCap's website, besides Imitater, Cabbage-pult, Spikerock, Gatling Pea, and Twin Sunflower.

• No plants start with the letter A, N, O, Q, V, X, Y, or Z.
• Mushrooms are classified as plants, even though they are actually fungi, which are an entirely different kingdom in the domain Eukaryote.
• In the instant kills' Suburban Almanac pages, they blink.
• All plants (including instant-use plants if timed correctly) are vulnerable to theft (except for Cob Cannon) or explosions.
  • All plants were also vulnerable to shots by Catapult Zombie, Peashooter Zombie or Gatling Pea Zombie. Note that not all zombies can defeat plants with their shots, as Umbrella Leaf can bounce Catapult Zombie's basketballs off, and Peashooter Zombie or Gatling Pea Zombie's peas can pass through Puff-shroom, Sun-shroom, Lily Pad, Spikeweed, Coffee Bean, and Spikerock without hitting them.
  • For Grave Buster's case, Bungee Zombies never target graves. But it is possible for him being stolen while spawning Bungee Zombie and planting Grave Buster together on the tile via hacking tools.
• Most game commercials and the mini-game Slot Machine show Peashooters with the back of the Repeater (two leaves).
• Different animations are seen when the player plants something in different terrain. If the player plants something on land, or a Flower Pot, they can see soil jumping out of the ground. If they plant something on the water, there will be a splash of water.
• When the player plants on land or on a Flower Pot, there are two slightly different sound effects that can be made. Planting on water, however, will only produce one sound effect.
• Upgrade plants say they must be planted on their downgrades, Grave Buster must be planted on graves, Lily Pad must be planted on water, and Flower Pot can be planted on both the Roof and the lawn.
• The most plants the player can have on one square is five: Lily Pad or Flower Pot, a Fume-shroom, a Pumpkin, a Gloom-shroom, and a Coffee Bean. Coincidentally, this is done in many farming and Survival: Endless strategies.
• In the Zen Garden, aquatic plants do not need water (probably because they already have water in the aqua pot or aquarium).
• If Jack-in-the-Box Zombie explodes near the crushed sprite of defeated plants, they will despawn immediately upon the explosion.
  • It is also possible for a Bungee Zombie to steal a flattened sprite of a defeated plant, as well as being removed by a shovel (with the latter only applying to Pumpkin).
• Flattened sprite of defeated plants despawn after 5 seconds.
  • However, their despawning time of 5 seconds will be affected if a Jalapeno Zombie and Jack-in-the-Box Zombie explode near the flattened sprite of defeated plants where they will despawn upon the explosion even before 5 seconds have been reached, and the despawning time stops when a zombie enters the player's house to eat the brains where anything on the screen except the zombie that reached the house will stop upon triggering the game over cutscene and a sprite will stay even after the "Game Over" dialog box is displayed until the player restarts or exits the level.
• The plants eaten by zombies that eat them and flattened sprite of defeated plants made by Zomboni, Catapult Zombie, Gargantuar, and Dr. Zomboss are PvZ's counterpart to the game mechanics of fishes in Insaniquarium, another PopCap game also created by George Fan, where the former is the game's equivalent to the fishes eaten by aliens in Insaniquarium while the latter is a fish dying of hunger, hit by missiles from Destructor or energy orbs from Ulysses where it will show a corpse when the fish turn upside down and their color change into grey which will fall down and disappear at the bottom of the tank.

See also

• Gallery of plants
• Upgrade plants
• Plant transformations

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