Plant Family (PvZ2)

*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.

### Fila-mint

* Color: Teal
* Icon: A lightning bolt

The Fila-mint family is mainly composed of electric plants, as well as Magnifying Grass:

* Citron
* Electrici-tea
* Electric Blueberry
* Electric Currant
* Electric Peashooter
* E.M.Peach
* Lightning Reed
* Magnifying Grass
* Ultomato

### Pepper-mint

* Color: Red
* Icon: A ball of fire

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

* Fire Peashooter
* Ghost Pepper
* Hot Date
* Hot Potato
* Jack O' Lantern
* Jalapeno
* Lava Guava
* Pepper-pult
* Pyre Vine
* Snapdragon

### Winter-mint

* Color: Light Blue
* Icon: A snowflake

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

* Cold Snapdragon
* Iceberg Lettuce
* Ice Bloom
* Missile Toe
* Snow Pea
* Winter Melon

### Enlighten-mint

* Color: Yellow
* Icon: A sun

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

* Gold Bloom
* Primal Sunflower
* Shine Vine
* Solar Tomato
* Sun Bean
* Sunflower
* Sun-shroom
* Toadstool
* Twin Sunflower

### Reinforce-mint

* Color: Tan
* Icon: A fence

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

* Aloe
* Chard Guard
* Endurian
* Gumnut
* Holly Barrier
* Infi-nut
* Pea-nut
* Primal Wall-nut
* Pumpkin
* Sweet Potato
* Tall-nut
* Wall-nut

### Bombard-mint

* Color: Orange
* Icon: A fused bomb

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

* Bombegranate
* Cherry Bomb
* Escape Root
* Explode-O-Nut
* Explode-o-Vine
* Grapeshot
* Potato Mine
* Primal Potato Mine
* Strawburst

### Ail-mint

* Color: Purple
* Icon: A bottle of some sort of poisonous substance

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

* Blooming Heart
* Chili Bean
* Fume-shroom
* Garlic
* Goo Peashooter
* Imp Pear
* Puffball
* Puff-shroom
* Spore-shroom

### Enchant-mint

* Color: Magenta
* Icon: A star-shaped wand emitting magical sparks

The Enchant-mint family is entirely composed of plants that utilize magic in some capacity:

* Caulipower
* Hypno-shroom
* Intensive Carrot
* Shrinking Violet
* Witch Hazel
* Zoybean Pod

### Contain-mint

* Color: Gray
* Icon: An hourglass/timer

The Contain-mint family is mainly composed of plants that slow zombies down, as well as Grave Buster, Blover and Magnet-shroom:

* Blover
* Dazey Chain
* Grave Buster
* Hurrikale
* Lily Pad
* Magnet-shroom
* Olive Pit
* Sap-fling
* Spring Bean
* Stallia
* Stunion

### 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:

* Bonk Choy
* Celery Stalker
* Chomper
* Guacodile
* Kiwibeast
* Parsnip
* Phat Beet
* Snap Pea
* Squash
* Tangle Kelp
* Wasabi Whip

### Arma-mint

* Color: Brown
* Icon: A firing cannon

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

* A.K.E.E.
* Apple Mortar
* Banana Launcher
* Blastberry Vine
* Cabbage-pult
* Coconut Cannon
* Kernel-pult
* Melon-pult
* Sling Pea
* Turkey-pult

### Conceal-mint

* Color: Medium Purple
* Icon: A shadowy swirl

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

* Dusk Lobber
* Grimrose
* Moonflower
* Murkadamia Nut
* Nightshade
* Shadow Peashooter
* Shadow-shroom

### Spear-mint

* Color: Black
* Icon: A pair of scissors

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

* Bloomerang
* Cactus
* Homing Thistle
* Laser Bean
* Pokra
* Spikerock
* Spikeweed
* Dartichoke

### Appease-mint

* Color: Chartreuse
* Icon: A Peashooter's head

The Appease-mint family is entirely composed of peashooter plants and plants that shoot projectiles straight, as well as Torchwood and Tumbleweed.

* Bowling Bulb
* Dandelion
* Pea Pod
* Peashooter
* Primal Peashooter
* Red Stinger
* Repeater
* Rotobaga
* Split Pea
* Starfruit
* Threepeater
* Torchwood
* Tumbleweed

## 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. 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.

## Trivia

* Though Gold Bloom is in the Enlighten-mint family, the symbol is not present in the seed selection screen until you click on the seed packet. This is because the plant gains no bonus while the appropriate mint is active.
* The Appease-mint is the largest plant family in the game at 13 members.
* There are some plants that could fit into other families, but are in other families based on how they are played:
	+ Despite being fire plants, Wasabi Whip and Torchwood are not in the Pepper-mint family.
	+ Despite all being pea plants, Snow Pea, Pea-nut, Fire Peashooter, Electric Peashooter, Shadow Peashooter, Sling Pea, and Goo Peashooter are not in the Appease-mint  family.
	+ Despite all being electrical plants, Magnet-shroom, Laser Bean, and Infi-nut are not in the Fila-mint family.
	+ Despite both being explosive plants, Coconut Cannon and Dandelion are not in the Bombard-mint family.
	+ Despite all not being pea plants, Bowling Bulb, Red Stinger, Starfruit, Dandelion, Rotobaga, Tumbleweed  and Torchwood are in the Appease-mint family since they fire single target projectiles.
		- However, Tumbleweed and Torchwood belong there so they synergize with each other when Appease-mint is on the field.
	+ Despite Hurrikale  blows icy winds to slow down zombies, he is not in the Winter-mint  Family.
	+ Despite all being stalling plants, Iceberg Lettuce, Chili Bean, Garlic, Primal Peashooter, Apple Mortar and Tumbleweed are not in the Contain-mint family.
	+ Despite all being lobbed-shot plants, Blooming Heart, Dusk Lobber, Winter Melon, Spore-shroom, and Sap-fling are not in the Arma-mint family due to their various other properties.
	+ Despite having an attack that pierces multiple zombies, Fume-shroom is not in the Spear-mint family.
	+ Despite having poisonous properties, Shadow-shroom is not in the Ail-mint family.
	+ Despite being a melee plant, Pokra is not in the Enforce-mint family.
		- Pokra technically poisons zombies, so Pokra could also fit in the Ail-mint family.
* 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, Blover is categorised because she relates to Hurrikale.
	+ Ghost Pepper is from the Pepper-mint family but lacks any fire properties. It was categorized so due to being a pepper.
* Power Lily, Tile Turnip, Gold Leaf, Thyme Warp, Lily Pad, Imitater, and Perfume-shroom are the only plants to not be in their own plant families.
	+ In Imitater's case, he takes the mint family of the plant he imitates.
	+ Despite being sun producing plants, Gold Bloom and Gold Leaf are not in the Enlighten-mint Family.
	+ Despite having infatuation powers over dinosaurs, Perfume-shroom is not in the Enchant-mint Family.

## See also

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