In the history of Plants Vs Zombie games there has been a total of 173 plants. Some are in the first game and other spin-off games such as Battlez and garden warfare but the majority of the plants come from Plants Vs Zombies 2. In this article, we will explore each plant in the first title. Here at Duck Blogs, we are committed to bringing you the most unbiased gaming news out there.
Plants Vs Zombies
In the OG Plants Vs Zombies game, there are a total of 40 playable plants in-game with 8 upgrades and 1 plant that is exclusive to wall nut bowling. All these plants came out with the game launch so we don’t need to tell you which plant came when.
Peashooter
- Type: Offensive – Long Ranged
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 100 Sun
- Recharge: Fast
Peashooter is the very first plant you get. Each pea he shoots is 20 damage so when you get into the higher levels he becomes more of a hassle than the actual help. Later levels and stronger plants will phase him out.
Sunflower
- Type: Sun producing
- Sun Production: Normal
- Cost: 50 Sun
- Recharge: Fast
This guy is a must for pretty much any level. Sunflowers produce sun which in term gets you more plants.
Cherry Bomb
- Type: Offensive – Instant Kill
- Damage: Instant
- Cost: 150 Sun
- Recharge: Very Slow
The cherry bomb is the first instant kill plant you get and it’s a good one. It deals 1800 damage to all zombies in a 3×3 area.
Wall Nut
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: High
- Cost: 50 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Wall-nuts are the first defensive plant you get in the game. Wall-nuts can take 40 bites before he gets completely eaten.
Potato mine
- Type: Offensive – Instant Kill
- Damage: Kills most zombies instantly
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Potato mine like its name is a mine and must be charged up before it is ready to explode. You will need about 14 seconds for it to arm itself.
Snow Pea
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal, slows zombies
- Cost: 175 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Snow pea is similar to Peashooters but they slow down the zombie’s movement after it gets hit.
Chomper
- Type: Offensive – Instant Kill
- Damage: Instantly kill one zombie
- Cost: 150 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Think of Chomper as a reuseable Potato mine. Chompers don’t need to be recharged until after it eats a zombie then it will take 42 seconds to finish its meal.
Repeater
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal (for each pea)
- Cost: 200 sun
- Recharge: Fast
The Repeater is like the peashooter but instead of one pea, it shoots 2 at a time for double the damage.
Puff-Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Short Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 0 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Sleeps during the day
Puff-Shroom is the first-night plant you get. He doesn’t cost anything so you can plant as many as you want as long as you have space.
Sun-Shroom
- Type: Sun producing
- Sun Production: Low, then normal
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Sleeps during the day
Sun-shroom is pretty much a night time varient of the sunflower. When you first plant him he will only give out 15 sun at a time but over time he will produce the same amount of sun as a Sunflower.
Fume Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Short Range
- Cost: 75 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Sleeps during the day
Fume shroom fires fumes that passes through shields such as ladders and screen doors.
Grave Buster
- Type: Environment modifier
- Effect: Destorys graves, single use.
- Cost: 75 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Grave buster is unique as it can only be used at nighttime and on graves to get rid of them.
Hypno-Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Instant kill
- Cost: 75 sun
- Recharge: Slow
- Sleeps during the day
When Hypno-shroom is eaten, that zombie will turn against it’s own kind and start eating other zombies until it dies or walks off screen.
Scaredy-Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Sleeps during the day
Scaredy-shroom is pretty much like a normal peashooter except when a zombie gets to close then it will duck down and stop shooting.
Ice-Shroom
- Type: Instant effect
- Damage: Very light, freezes zombies
- Cost: 75 sun
- Recharge: Very slow
- Sleeps during the day
Ice-shroom doesn’t damage zombies but instead freeze zombies for a short time.
Doom-Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Instant kill
- Damage: Instantly kill most zombies
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Very slow
- Sleeps during the day
Doom shroom is a bigger cherry bomb. He has a larger area of the explosion but he does create a crater that plants cant be planted on for a bit.
Lily Pad
- Type: Environment modifier
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Must be planted in water
Lily pad is the first aquatic plant you receive. Place lily pads on the water to plant any non aquatic plants on top.
Squash
- Type: Offensive – Instant kill
- Damage: Instantly kill most zombies
- Cost: 50 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Squash is an instant-kill plant. Squash is ready to kill zombies right as he planted by jumping on their heads.
Threepeater
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal (each pea)
- Cost: 325 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Threepeater is like an expensive peashooter but it can shoot peas across 3 lanes.
Tangle Kelp
- Type: Offensive – Instant kill
- Damage: Instantly kill zombies
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Slow
- Must be planted in water
Tangle Kelp is the squash of the pool. When zombies get close to him he will pull the zombie under the water.
Jalapeno
- Type: Offensive – Instant kill
- Damage: Instantly kill zombies
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Very slow
Jalapeno is a cherry bomb that just kills the whole lane instead.
Spikeweed
- Type: Offensive – Area of effect
- Damage: 5 damage over time/Instant kill to vehicles
- Cost: 100 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Spikeweed will hurt zombies that step on him and instantly kill a zomboni or catapult zombie.
Torchwood
- Type: Offensive – Boost
- Damage: None on his own but doubles the damage of peas
- Cost: 175 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Torchwood is a must-have in the late game as he will light peas passing him increasing the damage output.
Tall-Nut
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: High
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Slow
- Special: Cannot be vaulted or jumped over
Tall nut is a taller and sturdier version of the Wall-nut. He cant be jumped over by any zombies.
Sea-Shroom
- Type: Offensive – Short Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 0 sun
- Recharge: Slow
- Sleeps during the day
Sea-shroom is just a water version of the Puff-shroom.
Plantern
- Type: Environment modifier
- Toughness: Normal
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Plantern is a light that is used to clear away fog in levels.
Cactus
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Cactus shoots spikes that damage zombies and also pass through multiple zombies. Cactus also serves as a way to destroy balloon zombies.
Blover
- Type: Environment modifier
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Fast
When Blover is planted, he will spin and blow away the fog for a period of time and also get rid of any balloon zombies.
Split Pea
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Split pea serves as a counter to the digger zombies as it can shoot behind him.
Starfruit
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Starfruit shoots start in five directions.
Pumpkin
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: High
- Cost: 125 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Pumpkin’s main goal is to put an extra layer on plants in terms of health.
Magnet-Shroom
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: High
- Cost: 100 sun
- Recharge: Fast
- Sleeps during the day
Magnet-shroom removes helmets and other metal objects from zombies.
Cabbage-pult
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Normal
- Cost: 100 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Cabbage-pult is the first catapult plant introduced. Catapult plants are needed on the slanted roof levels.
Flower Pot
- Type: Environment modifier
- Cost: 25 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Flower pot is pretty much just the Lily pad of the roof.
Kernal-Pult
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Light (kernel), normal (butter)
- Cost: 100 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Kernal-pult launches kernels which is the same damage as cabbage but also have a 25% chance of throwing a butter which will do more damage and stun the zombies for 5 seconds.
Coffee Bean
- Type: Environment modifier
- Cost: 75 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Coffee bean is a bean that wakes up mushrooms during daytime levels.
Garlic
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: High
- Cost: 50 sun
- Recharge: Fast
When a zombie bites Garlic it will make a disgusted look and then go to another lane above or below.
Umbrella Leaf
- Type: Defensive
- Toughness: Normal
- Cost: 50 sun
- Recharge: Fast
Umbrella leaf has the ability to protect plants in a 3×3 area from bungee zombies and catapult zombies.
Marigold
- Type: Money-producing
- Cost: 50 sun
- Recharge: Slow
Every 24 seconds Marigold will produce gold or silver coin. While this is useless in defending your lawn it can be used in various money farming guides.
Melon-Pult
- Type: Offensive – Long Range
- Damage: Heavy
- Cost: 300 sun
- Recharge: Fast
While being the most expensive plant on the list it packs the biggest punch of them all.