Merrygold

Merrygold is a plant that appears in the . It is the upgrade of Marigold. It is available for purchase from for $10,000, being on sale after beating . It is an upgrade of Marigold so it must be placed on an existing Marigold.
Merrygold lets out merry snow tiles in a 3 rows x 2 columns space in front of her. The merry snow tiles apply slowing effect on zombies that are on them. Unlike other ice-based slowing plants, fire-based attacks will not nullify merry snow tiles' slowing effect due to the effect being continuous. If a zombie is defeated on a merry snow tile, it will drop either a silver coin, gold coin, diamond or rarely, a present.
Merrygold money effect stacks with other Merrygolds but the slow effect doesn’t stack. Merry snow tiles work on all surfaces.
==Visuals==
Merrygold periodically blows out snowfall on the area of its effect every few seconds. This is purely cosmetic, it doesn't really affect anything. The merry snow tiles effect is continuous. However, the merry snow tiles will not appear immediately after planting, they'll appear about a second later when Merrygold blows out snowfall the first time. During this short initial period without merry snow tiles, there is no effect present just yet.
==Origins==
Merrygold, like Marigold, is based on and named after Marigold or Calendula, a genus of about 15–20 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family Asteraceae native to southwestern Asia, western Europe and the Mediterranean.
The "merry" part comes from the phrase "Merry Christmas", relating to the Christmas festival and its snowy ability.
==Suburban Almanac Entry==
==Strategies==
This plant can be used to earn a lot of money. One good strategy is to plant her to the right-er side of the lawn and protect her with defensive plants such as or so that the zombies stay in the merry snow tiles and get defeated there, granting you money. is a good mode to do this due to the high amount of zombies.
Another useful thing to do with this plant is to make use of its slowing ability. Since the merry snow tiles go to the row above and below as well, you can use to divert zombies away from the lane Merrygold is on to the lane above or below where the effect still reaches.
==Drop chance==
This table shows the chance of reward dropped by a zombie defeated on a merry snow tile.
Drop 	Image	Chance
Silver coin	 	90%
Gold coin 	 	7%
Diamond 	 	2.5%
Present 	 	0.5%
==Gallery==
Merrygold HD.png|HD image
Merrygold Seed Packet.png|PC version seed packet
Merrygold Merry Snow Tiles.png|On lawn, with merry snow tiles
==Trivia==
*Merry snow tiles appear as snow puddles on the floor with snowfall on top of it. There are two cosmetic variants of merry snow tiles.
*When a merry snowfall tile is on an irregular surfaces (non-grass), the snow puddles part of it won't appear, only the snowfall part will appear. This is purely cosmetic.
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