Plants vs. Zombies – Plant Profiles Below are detailed descriptions of each plant’s appearance, personality, height, and abilities (including how to grow them): Peashooter Appearance: A small green plant with one large pea-shooting bud and two leaves. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Brave and straightforward. He’s the game’s first shooter and has a can-do attitude (lighthearted, sometimes joking about breakfast in-game). Abilities: Shoots peas at zombies (20 damage per shot). Basic offense plant. (Grow: costs 100 sun; very fast recharge.) Sunflower Appearance: A bright yellow sunflower with a cheerful face and broad green leaves. Height ≈0.7 m. Personality: Warm and nurturing. Always happy and energetic (bounces to the rhythm of life). Loves music and sometimes wants peashooter to dance with him (bounce side to side) Abilities: Produces sunlight (25-sun orbs) periodically. Primary support plant. (Grow: costs 50 sun; very fast recharge; gives 25 sun every 24s.) Cherry Bomb Appearance: Two red cherries with grinning faces fused together, each with a lit fuse. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Over-the-top and explosive. Excited to blow things up (one cherry famously says “I wanna explode!”). Abilities: Explodes to instantly destroy all zombies in a 3×3 area. (Grow: costs 150 sun; one-time use; very slow recharge.) Wall-nut Appearance: A round brown nut with a face wearing glasses, broad and sturdy. Height ≈0.6 m. Personality: Stoic and protective. Calm under pressure; cracks jokes about being chewed (“relaxing back rub”). Abilities: Blocks zombies with a very tough shell (takes a long time to break). (Grow: costs 50 sun; slow recharge; extremely high health.) Potato Mine Appearance: A white potato with big cartoon eyes and a small lit fuse on top. Height ≈0.3 m (when above ground). Personality: Stealthy and patient. Hides underground until needed. Abilities: Arms itself after a delay; explodes on contact to kill one zombie. (Grow: costs 25 sun; very slow arm-up time; instant-kill on trigger; single-use.) Snow Pea Appearance: Similar to Peashooter but tinted icy-blue, with frost on its bud. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Cool and composed. Calls for keeping your “cool” (as hinted by its chill effect). Makes ice jokes or anything related to cool/icy jokes Abilities: Shoots freezing peas (20 damage) that slow zombies. (Grow: costs 175 sun; fast recharge; also slows movement of targets.) Chomper Appearance: A purple plant with a huge chomping maw and spikes on its mouth. Height ≈0.7 m. Personality: Voracious and protective. Eager to eat zombies whole (does the job so no one else has to). And is a glutton Abilities: Swallows one zombie whole (insta-kill), then chews for a time. (Grow: costs 150 sun; fast recharge; kills one enemy at a time with a long chew cooldown.) Repeater Appearance: Like a Peashooter but with two pea cannons (two mouths). Height ≈0.7 m. Personality: Confident and assertive. “Takes no attitude from anybody.” Shoots double the firepower. Hangs around GatlingPea almost like those two are a duo Abilities: Fires two peas per shot (40 total damage). (Grow: costs 200 sun; fast recharge; double the output of a Peashooter.) Puff-shroom Appearance: A tiny purple mushroom with a big cap. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Brave and hardy. Lifesaver during night (0 sun cost). Abilities: Shoots short-range spores continuously. (Grow: 0 sun cost; very fast recharge; low damage; short range.) Sun-shroom Appearance: A small orange-yellow mushroom. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Optimistic and bright. Produces sun at night. Abilities: Generates sun (start at 15, then 25) in two stages as it grows. (Grow: costs 25 sun; fast recharge; eventually produces 25 sun every 24s.) Fume-shroom Appearance: A wide, purple mushroom. Height ≈0.4 m. Personality: Gritty and effective at night tells the rest to focus especially scaredy shroom and hypno shroom Abilities: Shoots a cloud of poison that pierces screen doors (40 splash damage). (Grow: costs 75 sun; moderate recharge; spreads damage in an arc.) Grave Buster Appearance: A squat plant with a shovel for an arm. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Determined and relentless. Focuses on clearing graves. He keeps to himself most plants don't know why he doesn't like graves Abilities: Instantly removes one tombstone (unlock graves). (Grow: costs 75 sun; fast recharge; no direct attack.) Hypno-shroom Appearance: A purple mushroom with hypnotic swirls on its cap. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Dreamy and manipulative. Lures zombies with hypnosis. Likes to help scaredy shroom sometimes listens to all his yapping about stuff Abilities: When eaten by a zombie, turns that zombie to fight for you. (Grow: costs 75 sun; slow recharge; night-only unless awakened by Coffee Bean.) Scaredy-shroom Appearance: A tall purple mushroom with a nervous expression. Height ≈0.4 m. Personality: Timid and jittery. Hides when danger is near. Likes it when he's around the planter and is a super nerd/geek Abilities: Shoots distant spores; if a zombie gets too close, it hides (becomes invisible). (Grow: costs 25 sun; fast recharge; long-range but will not fire if targets are very close.) Ice-shroom Appearance: A blue-capped mushroom. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Quiet and chilling. Wields frost power. Abilities: Freezes all zombies for several seconds. (Grow: costs 75 sun; slow recharge; one-time use to halt enemy advance.) Doom-shroom Appearance: A huge dark gray mushroom. Height ≈0.6 m. Personality: Apocalyptic and destructive. Causes total annihilation likes to sleep a lot but gets angry whenever he wakes up and just well blows up Abilities: Explodes in a 3×3 blast that kills all nearby zombies; leaves a crater. (Grow: costs 125 sun; slow recharge; day or night.) Lily Pad Appearance: A flat green lily pad. Height ≈0.1 m (floats on water). Personality: Calm and steady. Floats on water waiting to help. Abilities: Allows planting of ground plants on water. (Grow: costs 25 sun; fast recharge; no attack.) Squash Appearance: A light green squash with angry eyes. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Short-tempered and crushingly strong. Abilities: Jumps on the first zombie it sees and crushes it (1800 damage). (Grow: costs 50 sun; slow recharge; single-use.) Threepeater Appearance: Tall plant with three pea heads stacked vertically. Height ≈0.8 m. Personality: Ambitious multi-tasker. Shoots in three lanes at once. Each of the heads argue which is in charge doesn't like it when they get bossed around each head has different personalities but the left head is always cheerfull Abilities: Fires peas in all three lanes simultaneously. (Grow: costs 325 sun; fast recharge; covers more lanes than normal.) Tangle Kelp Appearance: A tall stalk of green kelp in water. Height ≈0.5 m (above water). Personality: Stealthy and deadly. Hides beneath water to attack mostly keeps to himself when he's talking likes to go underneath the pool to just chill Abilities: When a zombie steps on its tile, it pulls it underwater (instant kill). (Grow: costs 25 sun on a water tile; single-use.) Jalapeño Appearance: A tall red chili pepper. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Hot-headed and explosive doesn't like it when any plant gets to close loves his personal space Abilities: Incinerates all zombies in its entire row. (Grow: costs 125 sun; one-time use; area-of-effect fire.) Spikeweed Appearance: Green ground spikes covered with metal barbs. Height ≈0.05 m (ground level). Personality: Proud defensive barrier (dislikes zombies trying to bypass). Abilities: Damages and slows zombies that walk over it. (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge; remains on field.) Torchwood Appearance: A charred wooden log topped with a flame. Height ≈0.6 m. Personality: short fuse and enhancing (sets shots on fire)he gets angry a lot sometimes for no reason at all Abilities: Ignites peas that pass through it, doubling their damage. (Grow: costs 125 sun; fast recharge; no direct attack.) Tall-nut Appearance: A giant wall-nut with a stern face (about twice the height of a Wall-nut). Height ≈2.0 m. Personality: Unyielding and protective. Stands firm as an impenetrable barrier. Abilities: Blocks zombies with very high health; even Pole Vaulting Zombies cannot jump over. (Grow: costs 125 sun; slow recharge.) Sea-shroom Appearance: A small blue mushroom. Height ≈0.2 m. Personality: Quiet aquatic sprayer likes cattail almost like a duo Abilities: Shoots small water spores at moderate range; short-lived. (Grow: 0 sun at night; slow recharge; water shooter.) Plantern Appearance: A glowing orange pumpkin on a stalk. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Guiding and spooky he makes sure every plant can see what's going on good for a night lamp Abilities: Clears fog from the screen (makes everything visible). (Unlock at night in Roof; costs 25 sun to plant; passive light effect.) Cactus Appearance: A tall cactus with a face and arms. Height ≈1.2 m. Personality: Spiky and defensive keeps to himself likes to be at the highest point to snipe zombies Abilities: Shoots needles at high arc (can hit Balloon Zombies). (Grow: costs 125 sun; moderate recharge; anti-air specialized.) Blover Appearance: A giant green four-leaf clover. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Cheerful and breezy likes to fool around blowing anyone will stop if told but not for long till he's at it again Abilities: Blows away fog and all balloon enemies on screen. (Grow: costs 200 sun; fast recharge; wind effect.) Split Pea Appearance: A plant with a forward and backward pea head (half green/half purple). Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: both of them argue on who's in charge and who isn't but they always got each others backs Abilities: Shoots peas forwards and backwards simultaneously. (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge.) Starfruit Appearance: A yellow star-shaped plant. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Whimsical and magical tells stories fantasy ones Abilities: Fires projectiles in five directions (star pattern). (Grow: costs 125 sun; fast recharge.) Pumpkin Appearance: A hollow orange pumpkin with eyes (placed over another plant). Height ≈0.8 m. Personality: Sturdy protector likes to spook other plants Abilities: Shields one plant inside from damage (cost 125). (Place over a plant to protect it; acts as armor.) Magnet-shroom Appearance: A purple mushroom with a magnet symbol on its cap. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Focused and magnetic very energetic and sometimes steals your spoons Abilities: Steals metal items (helmets, poles) from all zombies on screen. (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge; night only unless upgraded.) Cabbage-pult Appearance: A green device hurling a cabbage in a slingshot. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Easygoing lobber doesn't like melon-pult but all times he doesn't mind Abilities: Lobs cabbages (40 damage) in a lobbed arc. (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge; hits zombies over obstacles.) Flower Pot Appearance: A small clay flower pot. Height ≈0.2 m. Abilities: Allows planting on roof tiles (cost 25 sun). (Place on roof; no attack.) Kernel-pult Appearance: A yellow-green kernel-shooter. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Resourceful and crafty and most likely a yes man Abilities: Lob kernels (25 damage) with butter shots (stuns on hit) occasionally. (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge.) Coffee Bean Appearance: A brown bean with leaves sprouting. Height ≈0.2 m. Personality: Energetic and invigorating. Abilities: Wakes a sleeping mushroom, allowing it to be planted in daytime. (Grow: costs 75 sun; place on a mushroom plant; no attack.) Garlic Appearance: A green garlic bulb with a face. Height ≈0.4 m. Personality: Strong-scented plant doesn't like it when other plants go away from how he makes them cry Abilities: Redirects a zombie to an adjacent lane when stepped on. (Grow: costs 50 sun; fast recharge.) Umbrella Leaf Appearance: A purple umbrella-shaped plant. Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Protective and bouncy (“SPROING!”). Abilities: Pops up to block one projectile (protects itself and neighbors). (Grow: costs 100 sun; fast recharge.) Marigold Appearance: A bright orange marigold flower. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Cheerful and generous. Abilities: Periodically spits out coins ($10 or $50). (Grow: costs 50 sun; slow recharge.) Melon-pult Appearance: A large watermelon shooter with green rind. Height ≈0.7 m. Personality: Mighty and grand maybe even to mighty likes to say he's the best plant of all Abilities: Hurls heavy melons (80 damage + splash 30) in an arc. (Grow: costs 300 sun; fast recharge.) Gatling Pea (Upgrade) Appearance: A Peashooter mounted on four gun barrels. Height ≈0.8 m. Personality: Rapid-fire enthusiast similar to repeater an angsty teen that doesn't like to get cuddled up but agrees to it anyway Abilities: Fires four peas at once (80 damage total). (Upgrade: costs 250 sun; extremely fast volley.) Twin Sunflower (Upgrade) Appearance: Two sunflowers on one stem. Height ≈0.9 m. Personality: Ultra-cheerful. Abilities: Produces two suns at once (100 sun, then 50 sun each). (Upgrade: costs 150 sun.) Gloom-shroom (Upgrade) Appearance: A dark purple mushroom. Height ≈0.6 m. Personality: Toxic and area-focused but mostly he keeps to himself Abilities: Attacks all adjacent zombies with poison. (Upgrade Fume-shroom for 150 sun.) Cattail (Upgrade) Appearance: A cattail plant with leaves (planted on a Lily Pad). Height ≈0.5 m. Personality: Precise and versatile loves pets and catnip Abilities: Fires homing spikes at any lane. (Upgrade Lily Pad + Sea-shroom for 125 sun.) Winter Melon (Upgrade) Appearance: A large green melon with ice crystals. Height ≈0.7 m. Personality: Cold and overwhelming. Abilities: Throws freezing melons (100 damage + heavy splash slow). (Upgrade Snow Pea for 250 sun.) Gold Magnet (Upgrade) Appearance: A golden mushroom with a magnet emblem. Height ≈0.3 m. Personality: Proud and superior. Abilities: Steals metal items (like Magnet-shroom) but usable anytime. (Purchase from Crazy Dave $3000 + 50 sun.) Spikerock (Upgrade) Appearance: A spiked metal mat (like Spikeweed on steroids). Height ≈0.05 m. Personality: Hardened and relentless tons of TalkBack like an angsty teen Abilities: Inflicts double Spikeweed damage and pops tires. (Upgrade Spikeweed for 125 sun.) Cob Cannon (Upgrade) Appearance: A double cherry bomb on a mechanical launcher. Height ≈0.8 m. Personality: Enormous and destructive. Abilities: Fires a 5×3 area corn cob explosion (same effect as two Cherry Bombs). (Upgrade Gatling Pea for 250 sun.)