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.

Conceal-mint

• Color: Medium purple
• Icon: A vortex

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

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  Conceal-mint

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  Gloom Vine

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  Dusk Lobber

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  Grimrose

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  Moonflower

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  Nightshade

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  Shadow-shroom

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  Murkadamia Nut

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  Noctarine

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  Shadow Peashooter

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  Dragon Bruit

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:

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  Enchant-mint

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  Tile Turnip

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  Intensive Carrot

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  Caulipower

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  Hocus Crocus

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  Hypno-shroom

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  Levitater

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  Shrinking Violet

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  Witch Hazel

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  Zoybean Pod

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  Imitater

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  Power Lily

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  MayBee

Enlighten-mint

• Color: Yellow
• Icon: Sun

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

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  Enlighten-mint

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  Shine Vine

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  Sunflower

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  Twin Sunflower

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  Primal Sunflower

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  Sun-shroom

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  Sun Bean

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  Gold Leaf

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  Solar Sage

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  Solar Tomato

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  Toadstool

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  Gold Bloom

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  Sundew Tangler

Enforce-mint

• Color: Green
• Icon: An arm with a muscle

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

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  Enforce-mint

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  Bonk Choy

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  Celery Stalker

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  Phat Beet

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  Guacodile

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  Tangle Kelp

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  Bun Chi

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  Chomper

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  Headbutter Lettuce

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  Kiwibeast

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  Parsnip

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  Rhubarbarian

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  Snap Pea

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  Squash

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  Tiger Grass

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  Wasabi Whip

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.

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  Appease-mint

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  Pea Vine

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  Peashooter

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  Repeater

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  Split Pea

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  Threepeater

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  Pea Pod

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  Primal Peashooter

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  Bowling Bulb

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  Red Stinger

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  Rotobaga

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  Mega Gatling Pea

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  Dandelion

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  Starfruit

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  Torchwood

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  Tumbleweed

Arma-mint

• Color: Brown
• Icon: A firing cannon

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

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  Arma-mint

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  Blastberry Vine

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  Cabbage-pult

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  Coconut Cannon

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  Kernel-pult

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  Melon-pult

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  A.K.E.E.

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  Banana Launcher

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  Apple Mortar

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  BoomBerry

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  Sling Pea

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  Stickybomb Rice

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  Turkey-pult

Spear-mint

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

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

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  Spear-mint

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  Bloomerang

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  Spikeweed

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  Spikerock

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  Laser Bean

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  Bramble Bush

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  Cactus

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  Dartichoke

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  Heath Seeker

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  Homing Thistle

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  Pokra

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  SeaFlora

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  Bamboo Spartan

Reinforce-mint

• Color: Tan
• Icon: Fences

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

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  Reinforce-mint

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  Pumpkin

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  Wall-nut

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  Tall-nut

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  Primal Wall-nut

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  Infi-nut

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  Chard Guard

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  Endurian

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  Aloe

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  Blockoli

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  Gumnut

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  Holly Barrier

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  Pea-nut

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  Sweet Potato

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  Bean Sprout

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  Guard-shroom

Bombard-mint

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

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

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  Bombard-mint

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  Explode-o-Vine

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  Potato Mine

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  Primal Potato Mine

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  Cherry Bomb

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  Teleportato Mine

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  Bombegranate

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  Boom Balloon Flower

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  Escape Root

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  Explode-O-Nut

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  Grapeshot

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  Strawburst

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  Bud'uh Boom

Winter-mint

• Color: Sky blue
• Icon: A snowflake

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

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  Winter-mint

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  Iceweed

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  Iceberg Lettuce

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  Winter Melon

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  Boingsetta

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  Chilly Pepper

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  Cold Snapdragon

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  Ice Bloom

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  Missile Toe

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  Snow Pea

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  Ice-shroom

Pepper-mint

• Color: Red
• Icon: Flames

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

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  Pepper-mint

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  Pyre Vine

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  Snapdragon

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  Hot Potato

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  Pepper-pult

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  Fire Peashooter

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  Ghost Pepper

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  Hot Date

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  Inferno

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  Jack O' Lantern

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  Jalapeno

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  Lava Guava

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  Meteor Flower

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:

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  Fila-mint

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  Bzzz Button

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  Citron

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  E.M.Peach

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  Electrici-tea

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  Electric Blueberry

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  Electric Currant

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  Electric Peashooter

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  Lightning Reed

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  Magnifying Grass

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  Power Vine

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  Ultomato

Ail-mint

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

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

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  Ail-mint

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  Blooming Heart

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  Chili Bean

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  Puff-shroom

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  Fume-shroom

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  Perfume-shroom

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  Spore-shroom

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  Garlic

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  Goo Peashooter

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  Imp Pear

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  Puffball

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  Scaredy-shroom

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  Vamporcini

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  Nightcap

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  Sea-shroom

Contain-mint

• Color: Gray
• Icon: An hourglass

The Contain-mint family is mainly composed of plants that slow zombies down without ice, or plants that typically don't belong in any other family, excluding Magnet-shroom.

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  Contain-mint

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  Grave Buster

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  Spring Bean

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  Blover

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  Thyme Warp

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  Stallia

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  Stunion

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  Magnet-shroom

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  Lily Pad

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  Buttercup

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  Dazey Chain

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  Draftodil

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  Hurrikale

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  Olive Pit

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  Sap-fling

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  Tomb Tangler

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  Cran Jelly

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

• The Appease-mint, Contain-mint, and Enforce-mint are the largest plant families in the game, all at 16 members.
  • The Winter-mint and Conceal-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.
  • 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, and Stallia 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, and Pokra 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.

See also

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

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