Its alternate abilities are the Dark Flower, which attacks zombies instead of healing plants, and the Rainbow Flower, which functions exactly the same as the Heal Flower but has glowing rainbow colored petals and rainbow colored sun drops which dropped one at a time at a faster rate. The Rainbow Flower is sold by Rux's Bazaar in the Trials of Gnomus DLC in Garden Warfare 2. It takes 35 seconds to recharge.
The Heal Flower can be seen as the plant equivalent to the zombie's Zombie Heal Station. It also has a zombie counterpart known as Dr. Heals.
It can be planted by any member of the plant faction if there are any available vacant pots and if they have gained any Heal Flower stickers. The Sunflower can also spawn a Heal Flower using the ability of the same name in both Garden Warfare games.
The Heal Flower is ideal to have around if your team lacks a Sunflower. It will provide health but be sure to protect it from zombies since the Heal Flower is defenseless on its own. In Garden Ops, when the plants must escape after the tenth wave, there will be a single flower pot in the landing zone. This flower pot is meant to contain a Heal Flower so be sure to place one in it because it will be needed while fending off the zombies from the landing zone.
There are three effective ways to protect it. One, as the Cactus, put some Potato Mines around the Heal Flower so if any non-ranged zombies try to bite it, they will get blown up. Two, also as the Cactus, put Tallnut Battlements, or Iron Maidens, around the Heal Flower. This will protect it from ranged zombies. And finally three, as the Chomper, put some Spikeweeds around the Heal Flower, as it will act in a similar way to putting Potato Mines around it which, at the tradeoff of dealing less damage, can destroy the armor of some tougher zombies.
It can also heal itself, although this is unreliable, but if you have no Sunflowers on your team, it can help out. If it is only slightly damaged, you may be able to count on this.
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Garden Warfare
Ability Heal Flower's sticker (Unused)
Potted Heal Flower's sticker
Ability Heal Flower's stickerbook description
Potted Heal Flower's stickerbook description
Ability Heal Flower icon
Potted Heal Flower select icon
Ability Heal Flower stickerbook icon
Potted Heal Flower stickerbook icon
Ability Heal Flower's textures
Potted Heal Flower's textures
Potted Heal Flower in-game, which resembles a Marigold better than the Sunflower's Heal Flower
A vanquished ability Heal Flower
Ability Heal Flower figurine
Garden Warfare 2
Ability icon
Sticker
The description of the Heal Flower as a Spawnable Plant in Garden Warfare 2
In other languages
Please note that only official translations are used.
The ability version of Heal Flower lasts 30 seconds and produces 3 sun at a time, 12 times, each sun heals 5 HP. While the potted plant version produces sun slower than the ability version, but never fades, it also produces 5 sun at a time, each sun heals 10 HP
It is currently the only Spawnable Plant that does not attack the zombies.
Sunflower's ability Heal Flower has more orange-ish petals than the potted plant.
It is currently the only Spawnable Plant that can die from a single Spawnable Zombies's bite.
It makes a high-pitched, somewhat silent "Woohoo!" sound whenever it is planted.
It can also say "Yeah!" as well.
In the initial release of Garden Warfare 2, it was the only ability whose icon was not changed.
However, this was fixed in later updates.
It appears near the Soccer Field that gives the player a quest to defeat 8 All-Stars.