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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree'' The eponymous Gaea Everfree has this power. [[spoiler: Both the "legend" and [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide Gloriosa]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist Daisy]], where the later surrounds Camp Everfree in vines after she transforms from using too much Equestrian magic.]]

** Kanto gym leader Erika, Sinnoh Gym Leader Gardenia, Unova Gym Leader Cilan, Kalos Gym Leader Ramos, Alola Trial Captain Mallow, and Galar Gym Leader Milo all specialize in Grass-type pokemon.
** Oddly, the most straightforward example of this trope might be the Pokemon Florges (and its pre-volutions, Flabebe and Floette) who use interacting-with-nature moves as her bread and butter, despite being a fairy type. Her main function in a battle is to power-up grass-types on the same team. You could think of it, as, true to the trope, using nature as a weapon.

%%* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'': Russel and Fletcher Tringham are very good at using alchemy this way.%%What way?

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-407 407]] is a musical recording that causes anyone listening to it to eventually burst into massive plant growth.

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* Waterbenders in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' possess the ability to manipulate plants by bending the water within them, unofficially dubbed "plantbending", though only one person (Huu) has been shown using it. It ranks low on the lameness scale on the basis of the main practitioner using it to form a humongous organic mecha which he operates from within, using entangling vines and brute force on his enemies. The same thing, when done to people or animals, is known as [[PeoplePuppets bloodbending]].
* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
** Downplayed with Wildvine from [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 the original series]]. His plant-controlling ability is mostly limited to [[RubberMan extending]] and altering [[PlantAliens his own plant body]], but has a few minor abilities that play this trope straight, such as being able to merge with plants to camouflage himself and growing vines from the seeds on his back.
** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'''s Swampfire. In addition to [[PlantAliens being himself a plant]], he can generate a gas that allows him to control plants. If there are no plants in the area, he can also spawn seeds that produce incredibly fast-growing plants.
* When the [[PrincessClassic true Princess]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' revives dying plants, it's in a shower of {{sparkles}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Undergrowth [[spoiler:and Sam]] in "Urban Jungle".
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' villain Reginald Bushroot, who is a pastiche of various Green Thumb supervillains, mainly [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Poison Ivy and Floronic Man]].
* Happens to General Skarr in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' two-parter "Twilight", one of the children of New Genesis was having trouble working in the garden, complaining that it was difficult. High Father explains the virtue of hard work by [[BrokenAesop accelerating the growth of the plant she was tending]].
* In the ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'', there was Evil Seed, a demonic PlantPerson who sought revenge against animal life and could command plants. In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'', however, he was opposed by Moss Man, a benign plant spirit with similar powers. (Evil Seed was as much a LargeHam as Skeletor; when He-Man asked Moss Man if he was always that way, the spirit just nodded and said, "Uh-huh.")
* In ''WesternAnimation/HerselfTheElf'', Creeping Ivy can grow long, tangling vines from her fingers to capture Herself remotely, and can also make leaf barriers to block her way.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': [[GodOfEvil Vaatu]] can make spirit vines burst from the ground and manipulate them like CombatTentacles. (It is unknown whether his counterpart, Raava, can do the same.) In the second season finale, [[spoiler:Vaatu/Unalaq's OneWingedAngel form covers Republic City in a massive forest of these vines.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MiaAndMe'': [[WingedUnicorn Onchao]] can make plants grow, even in areas that had been left barren by the villains' actions.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Earth ponies have a natural connection to nature that allows them to do this to some extent. For example, the Apples once grew an apple bigger than a pony and were going to enter it in a contest with similarly sized produce.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'', [[spoiler:when the magic of the crystals is revitalized, the Earth Ponies gain the ability to make plants grow with their hooves.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The coven system in place on the Boiling Isles splits magic in a number of disciplines, the "Main Nine" including the Plant coven and its corresponding school track. Willow Park is the most prominent user, able to summon hordes of vines as CombatTentacles in her first appearance, a feat impressive enough to convince the school's headmaster to switch her to the plant track. She later learns more diverse skills such as summoning {{Man Eating Plant}}s. A few others in this track appear on occasion.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Spoofed in an episode in which, while imagining themselves as a FiveManBand, Tommy's power os to talk to ''pants''. About as WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway as you can get there.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Perfuma can control plant life and utilizes massive vines during combat as she derives her powers from the Heart-Blossom.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E34WatermelonSteven "Watermelon Steven"]], Steven discovers he can create sentient plants just like his mother could when she was alive, although he can't quite control them. [[spoiler:In both cases, this (along with their [[HealingHands healing power]]) [[PowerMisidentification turn out to be]] specific applications of a broader {{Biomanipulation}} ability.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'': Major Disaster can control plants of the organism variety and, in one episode, [[SemanticSuperpower power plants as well]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Princess Amalia Sheran Sharm and her whole race, the Sadida, have powers over plants, being themselves PlantPeople. They can put it to a great variety of uses, including battles by creating large and fast-moving clusters of vines to strangle or crush their enemies.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has the [[ThemeNaming appropriately-named]] Flora. In Season 4, we also meet another nature fairy named Diana; she is one of the Earth fairies that was imprisoned by the Fairy Hunters.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': Cornelia and Kadma can do this; it comes naturally with being the Guardian of Earth. Cornelia thinks this ability is lame at first (at least, compared to her earth-moving powers), but learns to love it once she is able to grow flowers the size of skyscrapers.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
%%* ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'': Konoha's default Arcana Moriomoto.
* ''VideoGame/BloodlineChampions'' has a bloodline called the Thorn. Against the usual characterization of these powers, Thorns are monsters who've twisted plants to serve them in their attacks.
* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': Ollin is a desert spirit who wields a MagicStaff that grants him cactus powers. He shoots cactus spines at enemies and his signature ability fires a cactus ball that explodes into a SpreadShot of spines upon impact. The Mezcal Defiance and Mezcal Mantle items also allow any character to fire cactus spikes as a MultiDirectionalBarrage.
* ''Videogame/CavesOfQud'' offers you the Burgeoning mental mutation, which causes for to spontaneously bloom in the spot selected. Said flora is on your side and taken from Qud's ''notoriously'' dangerous plantlife; thus, you can expect chaos every time you use it, but it's certainly powerful.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': The [[WindIsGreen Green]] Element combines this with BlowYouAway. Green spells revolve around attacking with leaves, poisonous thorns and vines, and summoning enormous Venus flytraps.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': Controllers and Dominators had access to the Plant Control power set, which ultimately allows for the creation of a healing tree and a walking fly trap.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dawn}}'': [[PlayerCharacter Ash]] can make flowers bloom and vines grow.
* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'' has the "Nature" powerset, with half of the powers focusing on the "Flora" element of nature (a.k.a. plants). The other half focuses on the "Fauna" aspect of nature (i.e. animal powers, with VoluntaryShapeshifting and the like).
* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'':
** Rooftrellen has abilities that make teammates invisible when they are near trees, plant trees that give sight, wrap allies in protective regenerative plants, and summon vines to disable all enemies in an area.
** The Prophet can teleport to any tree on the map, summon {{Treants}}, and snare an enemy in a ring of trees.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': While Dalish Keepers didn't have unique spells in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', in the ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' expansion and ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' Velanna and Merrill, respectively, have special spell trees (no pun intended) that fall into this category. While the effects were somewhat simplistic in Velanna's case, with increased nature damage and attacking roots featuring prominently, Merrill's Keeper spells include powerful [=AoE=] spells that inflict nature damage, gaining health from the damage inflicted by the previously mentioned spell (even if she's using BloodMagic at the time), and teleporting with roots.
%%* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Geomancers.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': This is played with regarding Prince Leo's [[SignatureMove Signature spellbook]], Brynhildr. Invoking the spell summons magical verdant trees that shoot up and impale from below, and it can also grow fruit, according to WordOfGod. It can also passively levitate objects and people, invoking GravityMaster and DishingOutDirt as well (he uses it to levitate rocks in a cutscene on the ''Birthright'' route). On the other hand, Leo himself classifies Brynhildr as [[TheSacredDarkness dark magic]] in his supports.
* ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'': The Shaman mastery can sprout patches of lashing vines out of the ground that pin enemies down and inflict bleeding, summon a briarthorn monster as an ally, and invoke a blessing from the god of nature that gives them the resilience of ancient trees.
* The ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' series lumps this in with the [[DishingOutDirt earth element]]. Matthew, the hero of the third game is the first to have plant-based spells in his default class, but he doesn't really develop the ability.
** Himi, the second Venus adept in the party is able to cast all of the plant-based Psynergy in the game.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' has Viridi, the goddess of nature. It also provides a very extreme example with her {{Fantastic Nuke}}s called Reset Bombs, which are intended to turn areas to their original plant-covered state.
* Marluxia from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. His powers have a death flavor to them as a counterpart to the recurring Cure line of spells, which take a floral appearance.
* In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' and ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', Kirby gains a Leaf ability that allows him to toss around razor-sharp leaves to do damage as well as summon plants to hide in or to attack.
* Zyra, [[GaiasVengeance the Rise of Thorns]] from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', being the living embodiment of an ancient and powerful plant, has spells that revolve around the rapid growth of plants. She can plant buds on the battlefield and [[TheTurretMaster either grow them into plants that attack]] with thorns, tendrils, and vines.
* ''[[VideoGame/MagicalVacation Magical Starsign]]'''s Chai the Wood Mage.
* Being pacted to the [[{{Familiar}} Mana of Trees]] allows Nikki of ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' to use plant-based attacks, including her FinishingMove.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' had Wood Man, a wooden robot who used leaves both as shields and as weapons. His concept was recycled with Plant Man in ''VideoGame/MegaMan6''.
** In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', Mega Man has nothing but disdain for Wood Man and the Leaf Shield, even after using the latter to defeat Air Man.
** Then there was [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060705 Plant Man]]. [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060706 Yeah]]. [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060708 Plant Man]].
** Then again, he did manage to [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060328 rip Cut Man limb from limb with vines in an earlier comic.]]
** There is also Axle the Red from ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' and Bamboo Pandamonium from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''.
* You learn a spell in ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'' that allows you to make plants grow.
* [[ManEatingPlant Plant]] from ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'', as a [[PlantPerson walking plant]], has the ability to ensnare its prey in vines that sprout instantly from launched seeds. Its plant-based abilities can be upgraded by one of two Ultra Mutations: "Trapper" and "Killer". "Trapper" expands Plant's vines into a mini-jungle where almost nothing can escape, while "Killer" creates vicious saplings from enemy corpses that [[SuicideAttack home into the nearest enemy and explode]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has the Hanagami, a trifecta of [[PhysicalGod plant-based Brush Gods]], Sakigami, Tsutagami, and Hasugami. When you get their power, drawing a circle around a dead tree, scribbling over a miniature cursed zone, or painting a dot on fertile ground yields Bloom, drawing a line connecting a Konohana Blossom to something makes a Vine (inverted in [[VideoGame/{{Okamiden}} the sequel]]), and drawing circles on water creates Lilypads for you to {{walk on water}}.
* Grass-type ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are said to have these powers either by using built-in plant features or creating/manipulating plants around them. They also tend to specialize in StatusEffects and learn lots of moves that poison, paralyze, or put opponents to sleep, rather than dealing lots of direct damage.
** Kanto gym leader Erika, Sinnoh Gym Leader Gardenia, Unova Gym Leader Cilan, Kalos Gym Leader Ramos, Alola Trial Captain Mallow, and Galar Gym Leader Milo all specialize in Grass-type pokemon.
** Oddly, the most straightforward example of this trope might be the Pokemon Florges (and its pre-volutions, Flabebe and Floette) who use interacting-with-nature moves as her bread and butter, despite being a fairy type. Her main function in a battle is to power-up grass-types on the same team. You could think of it, as, true to the trope, using nature as a weapon.
* The Chloromancer, one of the Mage sub-classes of ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'', is built around using the Plane of Life to conjure plants. While most of their magic is weak, through the use of "Veils" they convert most of the damage they deal, if not more, into healing to people around them, making them incredibly powerful group healers.
* Despite appearing to be an ice magic-user, Eifer Skute of ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' actually manipulates plants and flora.
* In ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', both the girl and the sprite learn a few nature-based spells from Dryad, the Tree Spirit.
** Hawkeye's Wanderer class in ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' can learn all of Dryad's spells but one. Incidentally, he can also learn all but one of {{Luna|cy}}'s spells.
** Instruments endowed with Dryad's power.
* Anegakoji Yoritsuna from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' is an IneffectualLoner who lives in the forest due to his dislike of other samurai. His powers include dropping huge tree limbs on his opponent.
* The second and third ''VideoGame/TheSims'' games: In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', Sims with a golden talent badge in gardening can talk to plants and improve their quality. In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', Green Thumb is actually a Sim trait. With the introduction of a Supernatural expansion, Fairies are this.
* The magical element that draws from the [[WeirdMoon Green Moon]] in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' is labeled "nature", and it resembles the Wood element; one of the magic attacks drawing from the Green Moon is a toxic gas. Also, the continent under the Green Moon, Ixa'taka, is covered with forests and the Moon's magic allows it to grow and quickly recover from damage.
* At first, the Life element in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' dealt solely in this trope, with its users being PlantPeople with varying control over plant life, such as spitting acorns that trapped opponents in slowing vines, creating vines with explosive peppers, or growing plants to serve as a barricade. However, it would later also combine this with TheBeastmaster, though sticks mostly to plant life for the most part. In the ElementalRockPaperScissors, it beats [[MakingASplash Water]] but loses to [[{{Necromancy}} Undead]].
* ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'': On one level, there are giant frogs that can conjure rain that causes plants in the vicinity to grow. The following level has the opposite in the form of black frogs whose rain causes plants to die, which works out well for the player when it causes the giant fruits hanging from vines to fall off and crush nearby enemies.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'':
** Plantmancer is one of the classes the player can choose powers from. It's a support class with a potent group heal that also buffs the affected allies (but has a three turn cooldown in exchange), a move that knocks enemies away from the player and causes [[StatusEffects Bleeding]], one that pulls them towards the player and Charms them for a few turns, and a LimitBreak that revives all downed party members and heals the rest.
** In the ''Bring the Crunch'' DLC, the monsters (really just crackheads in monster costumes) can use vine attacks like the Plantmancer.
* Tytree Crowe in ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'' possesses the Force of Plant, which he sometimes uses during his artes.
* The Nature type in ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' mainly consists of {{Planimal}}s who learn a lot of healing and support moves.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series has the Pagans, who can manipulate plants and use them to either help allies or harm enemies. [[spoiler:Viktoria]] from the first two games and the Pagan Shamans from the third game in particular use plant-based attacks, [[spoiler:Viktoria]] extending vines to pin or impale enemies and the Shamans firing blasts of natural energy at enemies and using it to speed up allies. They represent Chaos, worship the [[MadGod Trickster]] and want to restore nature to prominence, hating advanced technology and the inhabitants of the City, particularly the [[KillItWithFire Hammerites]] (and Mechanists in the second game) who represent Order, worship the [[CrystalDragonJesus Builder]] and want to spread technology throughout the world. The Earth Mages in the first game can also fire a projectile that will entangle Garret in vines if it hits and gradually sap his health until he shakes free. The moss arrows create patches of vegetation that muffle any movement you made on them, and in the third game can choke enemies it is fired at, rendering them temporarily helpless. The vine arrows in the second game create vines down from any surface that they are fired at which you can use to climb up high areas, unlike the similar rope arrows which can only create ropes down from wooden or grass surfaces.
* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': The game trilogy has Life Magic as described under Tabletop.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has several examples:
** Yuuka Kazami, despite being one of the most powerful beings in Gensokyo, is actually a downplayed example. ''[[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' states that her power only consists of minor things like making flowers bloom, tilting the direction of sunflowers, and reviving dead flowers. This is explicitly said to be useless in battle and only serves to make her attacks prettier. She is, however, still one of, if not ''the'' oldest {{Youkai}} in the setting, [[FlightStrengthHeart with physical and magical powers]] [[StrongerWithAge to match,]] and she loves her flowers. [[BerserkButton Do not hurt Yuuka Kazami's flowers.]] '''[[AxCrazy Just. Don't.]]'''
** Wood is one of the elements that Patchouli is able to use.
** Suwako Moriya has it as a part of her [[DishingOutDirt earth god]] abilities, and the Mishaguji she controls manipulate the fertility of the soil. She and [[GodOfHumanOrigin Kanako]] use these powers to [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly gather faith]] by essentially warning people that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened there may be a crop failure if they're not worshipped.]]
* ''VideoGame/TreeOfSavior'''s Druids follow modern expectations. Half of their skillset involves manipulation of plants -- protecting allies with them, turning grass into {{Man Eating Plant}}s, or creating enchanted patches of grass that temporarily convert enemies who tread on them into Plant-type creatures.
* ''VideoGame/{{Trove}}'': This is the bread and butter of the Chloromancer class, which is able to summon plants that can attack enemies or heal allies. Their unique Class Gem can allow them to summon a plant that can shoot at enemies, and their ultimate skill flings plants all around them.
%%* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': Druids, particularly the hero version, the Keeper of the Grove.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wildermyth}}'': Mystics can exert basic control over nearby plant life by interfusing with it. The Naturalist and Arches abilities grant more advanced skill in this area.
* Druids in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' have several plant-based spells, including, but not limited to, entangling roots, growing thorns over their bodies, summoning [[WhenTreesAttack treants]], or turning into them with a boost to their healing spells.
** Balance Druids, in particular, focus on this trope. ''Cataclysm'' expands this with exploding Magic Mushrooms that leave behind fungus that slows enemies. Restoration druids get to grow healing plants as a side effect of their spells.
** Anyone with the Herbalism skill used to have access to a haste-increasing ability which caused flowers to sprout around them.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Chaotic}}'' has the [[https://chaotic.fandom.com/wiki/Vine_Snare Vine Snare]] attack, which slows down enemies and can only be performed by Creatures able to use Earth attacks.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** As Green is the color of nature, most Green planeswalkers and mages and many Green creatures can animate and control plants in various manners.
** Players who build decks heavy on Plant creatures and/or ones with Green Thumbs themselves fall under this trope through the game's basic concept of players taking the role of in-universe planeswalkers casting spells and controlling summoned beings.
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Plant Plants]] are among the monster types in the game. Originally, they were a weak and overlooked type but started to get some strong support focusing on swarming and graveyard revival. One of the more popular Plant-type archetypes is [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Aroma Aroma]]. Aroma monsters have effects that trigger when you gain Life Points and have higher LP than the opponent, and have multiple ways to do so. Not only are they powerful, but even if you do overcome their first wave, the nature of the archetype means it takes ''forever'' to bring them down, giving them time for a comeback.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has a number of spells and powers for controlling plants, most of them in the hands of the Druid class, who can entangle enemies in rapid plant growth, warp and manipulate wood, animate PlantMooks, and much more. The Verdant Lord PrestigeClass focuses on this aspect of the class, turning Druids into outright masters of plants. It returns in Fourth edition as a paragon path for the Warden, the [[{{Shapeshifting}} Primal]] [[MightyGlacier Defender]] class.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Wood is one of the five basic elements of creation, and beings associated with it -- such as wood elementals, gods of forests and plant life, Raptok Dragon Kings, and Wood Aspect Dragon-Blooded -- can wield powers allowing them to shape and alter plants and speed or direct their growth. Besides plants, the element is thematically associated with growth, the drive for living things to spread and survive, and poison, and these things often factor into powers associated with it. Wood Aspect Dragon-Blooded are completely immune to all natural poisons, for instance, and weapons aligned with elemental wood can do things like release clouds of potent toxins.
%%* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': Druids and Plant College mages, especially with ''Plant Spells'' supplement.
* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': The Plant Control power. Its default effect conjures a swarm of vines in a designated area to bind and restrain enemies, but Alternate Powers allow it to branch out into numerous other functions, including creating structures out of plant matter (Create Object), conjuring toxic pollen to disorient opponents (Stun), and manipulating internal flora to cause weakness (Nauseate). The Green Man, a villain in ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'', is a notable wielder of this power within the game's canon.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** The Greensinger druid archetype gains an empathic ability to control plant life and a loyal sentient plant companion rather than the Druid's usual animal buddies.
** Plant-based and/or forest-dwelling monsters such as green dragons, {{Treants}} and forest blights can often animate and control plant life.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'':
** In first edition, the Boon of Fertility's Hero rank powers range from "keep a plant alive no matter what the conditions" to "make sure a crop suffers no blight" and "make plants grow anywhere" -- the accompanying illustration depicts a car overgrown with vines. Some of the higher-level powers allow you to accelerate plant growth at ridiculous speeds, to the point that you can create a forest in seconds. Another power allows you to spontaneously create any sort of plant in existence, and it can be used to create instant battering rams. You call Fertility a lame power when someone hits you with a redwood tree at a hundred miles an hour.
** Fertility returns in second edition as a Purview, though most of the nature theme has gone to the new Wild Purview. Doesn't mean Fertility is useless, though -- the sample text describing it has a Scion give a minotaur lung cancer.
* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
** ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'': The Horticulturalists of Nurgle (specialist Wizards available to hire by Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, and Nurgle teams in the 5th Edition of the game) can cause the weeds and grass of a Blood Bowl pitch to writhe with life before they rot to nothing. The Horticulturalist is able to use this ability in an attempt to trip opposing players trying to Go For It or to knock them from their feet with a rapid bloom of putrid fauna.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Wizards who channel the Wind of Life use a combination of this and healing magic -- besides being able to heal and strengthen allies, they can influence plant growth or call on animated vegetation to attack their foes.
* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'':
** ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'' has Lore of the Wild, which is quite useful. Examples include plants, including ivy, tearing down a wall, as well as the usefulness of being able to sense things that are near to plants.
** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' downplays this -- significantly -- with a variant of the [[TheBeastmaster Animalism]] power that affects plants. Trouble is, it doesn't let plants grow or move more quickly than they ordinarily could...
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Belgarath, challenged on his identity early in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', proves it by jamming a twig from his horse's tail into the cracks in some flagstones and growing it into an apple tree. Then he orders the knight who challenged him to care for that tree for the rest of his life. At last report, the knight and his family still were. Similar feats of plant manipulation appear sporadically throughout the series. [[spoiler:Garion himself actually ''creates'' an entirely new species of flower.]]
* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'':
** Children of Demeter (goddess of the harvest) have this power. Meg from ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' is noted as being unusually strong on this front.
** Children of Dionysus have a more limited version of this ability, mainly applying to crops that can be fermented into alcohol (we see it applied with grapes). Dionysus ''is'' the god of wine, after all.
* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', Molly has a spell for plant growth, which [[MundaneUtility she has used to win second prize in farm shows]]. She uses it to good effect in the final battle against the evil sorceress.
%%* [[MeaningfulName Rose]] from ''Literature/ChameleonMoon'' is one of these.
* ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'':
** Plant mages in Creator/TamoraPierce's Emelan universe, most notably Briar and Rosethorn, can exclusively manipulate plants. Importantly, this is ''not'' an example of WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway, as demonstrated in ''[[Literature/TheCircleOpens Street Magic]]'' when a plant mage brings everything that was or had been a plant around a house to life and makes them so strong that trying to burn them down didn't work. It's explicitly stated that it'll be years before anyone can get close to the scene.
** Briar and Rosethorn specifically cultivate seeds to put in little cloth balls so they can plant them at need. This in itself is not terribly impressive until you learn that those seed balls either become [[spoiler:clinging vines that can restrain large numbers of heavily armed people, rock-destroying plants accelerated so they can tear down stone walls in minutes, or vines with incredibly sharp thorns, which Briar can grow so fast that he uses them to rip straight through an assassin who thought he could sneak up behind his back.]]
** They also have the ability to boost the natural abilities of plants. When their city was struck by plague they spent hours in the medicine stores, making all the dried herbs and treatments super-powerful, saving hundreds of lives. Similarly, they also use their powers to grow larger and healthier plants, and research diseases afflicting crops and forests, showing the peaceful powers of this trope.
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': Woodcrafters, though no one in their right mind would mistake them for useless; a Knight Flora can basically become invisible if there's enough plant matter nearby and they're some of the deadliest archers ever since their abilities give them ImprobableAimingSkills. Woodcrafters can also sense changes in plant matter as well, making them excellent scouts and sentries. A good woodcrafter who is also a good [[DishingOutDirt earthcrafter]], like Bernard or Fidelias, is an even better archer, being able to wield ridiculously large and powerful bows thanks to earth-granted SuperStrength.
** Woodcrafting ''can'' also be used to grow crops really fast, but this feature is not generally made use of because it exhausts the soil within a couple of years.
** [[spoiler: Octavian makes an epic use of this in the sixth book when he needs to break through walls that have been furycrafted to shrug off fire and lightning and be impossible to break via earthcrafting. So he summons wind and water to cover the wall in seeds, then makes them grow so fast that they rip it to pieces.]]
* ''Literature/DarkShores'': Tenders, that is individuals marked by Yara, goddess of earth and everything that grows from it, can make plants grow rapidly and protect them from pests.
* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''Literature/DeadIron'', Rose can hear plants talk. She tries to ignore it; wearing her OrphansPlotTrinket helps.
%%* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Arguably, Magrat from ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', though she only does it once and finds it hard to control. Still, very awesome.
* [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} The one lion and eagle]] from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' ties his golden chariot to the dead Tree of Life and the tree blossoms on every branch with flowers the color of blood in the starlight. The cost of this bio-salvation is that [[SaintlyChurch the chariot]] is attacked and mutated into [[CorruptChurch a multi-headed monster]] dragged out of the Garden.
* Anna in ''Literature/FindingGaia'' has this ability, as well as the ability to [[ElementalAbsorption reverse the process]] to get expended energy back when needed.
* Green of ''Literature/GreenAngel'' has such a green thumb that she's named after it. Unlike many people where the thought doesn't even occur to them, she ''primarily'' uses it to grow food, especially after [[ApocalypseHow the nearby city's blown up and refugees flood to her village.]] She also seems to have a host of minor earth-type abilities: She can detect groundwater for the village's new well, and tell apart metals by touch.
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', the Staff of Fertility, an artifact the elves use to keep their city alive, can make plants grow to incredible sizes and in desired shapes in an instant, although it must be active and present for the enhanced plants to stay alive, which becomes a problem when the staff is stolen. This is PlayedForLaughs upon its triumphant return. Elven archmage Morriel uses the staff to make a fir grow in the middle of the throne room in celebration and only after having rejoiced at its sight for a proper amount of time do the elves notice that they're going to have to get rid of the thing the conventional way. Shelena mentions sawing sounds coming out of the throne room when the heroes take their leave from the elven kingdom.
* ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'': Fiona Frauenfeld -- it's her peculiarity. She can make plants grow very fast, and in whatever shape she pleases.
-->''She bent down and held one of her palms above the grass. A few seconds later, a hand-shaped section of blades wriggled and stretched and grew until they were brushing the bottom of her palm.''
* Aretzes in ''Literature/TheQuestOfTheUnaligned'' get this as one facet of their earth magic. Though this power is often used to promote the growth of crops, limited numbers of aretzes (and the fact that they are primarily healers) mean that a lot of ordinary agriculture is needed as well.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, plant and flower-themed fairies have this power.
* ''Literature/TheReader2016'' has the chief mate of the ''Current of Faith''. His grandmother taught him how to talk to all the trees in the grove they used to live by. When he was blinded and the trees were harvested to make a ship, he thought they were gone forever but later he followed their voices and found Reed's ship. Now he can hear the voices of the hull and knows everything that happens on the ship.
* Hawthorne of ''Literature/RumorsBlock'' can not only control plants but genetically modify them to combine the traits of different species.
* ''Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant'': ''The Story of the Seasons'' is first told in the [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} main show]], which appears to occur over a single day, thereby resulting in Spring appearing to grow plants at super-fast speeds even before she's given magic. This is averted in the book, where each sister spends their entire respective season with the Old Wizard, resulting in him having company for a full year. Spring therefore tends his garden and grows crops in a normal way over the course of many months.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'' and ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', Fleur Paquignet has an affinity with plants, and can cause them to grow in inhospitable conditions and at unnatural speeds.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' has Progression, a power that allows the Radiants of Truthwatcher and Edgedancer orders to make plants grow in an instant. This particular aspect of Progression is usually overshadowed by its other application, HealingHands, though Lift will sometimes use it to grow vines she can climb.
* In ''Literature/StrangerAndStranger'', [[spoiler:April manifests this Blessing after she gets possessed.]]
* Swan in ''Literature/SwanSong'' has this uncanny ability to cause green to sprout despite a seven-year nuclear winter.
* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheFrogPrincess'' Princess Hazel, though presumably possessing all the powers of the Green Witch, specializes in plants and flowers especially. Though it's mentioned that she turned around the kingdom's failing crops and that she has used plants against people (her sister) before, the plants are seen more as a nuisance than a help, as they've basically taken over the castle and made it impractical for combat.
* Hanami of ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'' wields the Mage Flower, which can grow pretty much anything, anywhere, in any shape. In a subversion of ReedRichardsIsUseless (as mentioned above), she provides much-needed food for the other Outcasts.
* The TropeNamer is almost certainly Tistou, from Maurice Druon's ''Tistou les pouces verts'' ("Tistou Greenthumbs", in English), who has the power to make plants grow faster with but a touch of his thumb.
* In Creator/RuthFrancesLong's ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'', the piper can [[MagicMusic cause roses to entangle Jack.]]
* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', PosthumousCharacter Saint Vladimir, Sonya Karp, Oksana, Lissa Dragomir, and Adrian Ivashkov are all spirit users who can make plants grow.
* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'' has the [Druid] class which does exactly this, growing grass, exotic plants, and in one case an entire hedge maze, along with the [Green Mage] Moore.
* The Nym in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, are [[PlantPerson plant people]] with such powers. They were created specifically to help grow crops and gardens. The Ogier have a lesser ability called tree-singing, which can strengthen a tree and hasten its growth, or encourage it to grow into a specific shape like a chair or staff, which will be far more durable and lasting than ordinary wood.
* Plantwitches in ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' can control the way plants go and make them grow far more than the earth they're in would usually permit.
* Irene of ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' only has the ability to make plants grow, but the selection of plants (Xanth is home to a plethora of deadly, gigantic, ambulatory, carnivorous plants, as well as explosive cherries and pineapples) available to her is such that this is pretty damned useful.
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* ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': In "What if they were in Emelan?", Ax has the power to make plants grow rapidly, even if they've been reduced to planks of wood.
* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', [[spoiler: Harry's]] WorldHealingWave has among its side-effects, the effect of restoring forests that had been cut down recently (or, in the case of the Forest of Arden in England, some centuries ago, burying a large golf course), with the explanation that the character behind it had been a) a RealityWarper at the time, b) grown up reading stories with forests that were far thicker and more common than they actually were.
** In the sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past'', Wanda Maximoff does this on a smaller scale to [[spoiler: temporarily]] defeat Selene, by growing a White Ash up ''through'' her in a matter of seconds.
* ''Fanfic/{{Domoverse}}'': Amanda, who uses it to force-grow poisonous plants like poison ivy, and greenbriar, as weapons.
* In ''FanFic/AGamerInSouthBlue'', 'Oaken Fist' Kowalik is one of the top three on the South Blue's most wanted list. He has the Paramecia Wood-Wood Fruit that allows him to generate a seemingly endless number of wooden constructs as well as super-powering his ship's wooden paddles to ensure that nobody ever catches him. [[spoiler:His ultimate technique has him drain an entire island of its nutrients and plant life to [[OneWingedAngel grow into a Treant of Adam wood.]]]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[AlternateTimeline alternate universe]] fanfic ''Fanfic/AMinorVariation'', Twilight Sparkle's magic eruption occurs at Sweet Apple Acres and not Canterlot. This results in her having an amazing affinity with plant life.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'':
** The Queen of Thorns/[[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] had this power, being able to even make plants grow in the desert wastelands of Hueco Mundo when normally even bringing in soil from the human world can't let that happen, tying to her "theme" of cycles.
** As in canon, Gloriosa Daisy has this power, but [[spoiler:it's actually a ''Fullbring'' Gaia Everfree ensured that she'd develop, having been grooming her family line to provide a new host body for her. The magic of the geodes merely brought it out and masked the Hollow energy.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3623694/chapters/9750906 Home and Other Stories]]'' describes Rose learning how to use this power.
-->''Venus flytraps, vines decorated in thorns, followed her flag and stormed after the enemy at her call.''
* In ''Fanfic/KeepersOfTheElements'', Heather gains this ability along with [[DishingOutDirt Earth]] and [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]].
* Quill Blayde in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' is a wizard of nature, though his function with the four is more as adviser [[spoiler: and spy]]. During the parade fight, he triggers some seeds he'd planted in the area in anticipation of the fight, and at least one bad guy gets swallowed up by vines, though Ringo is underwhelmed by how little the seeds do compared to how much work the wizard put into their prep.
* ''Fanfic/MyLittleMarriageMaryIsAMare'': Mary, as a pony, slowly discovers that she can influence plants more or less unconsciously. She's initially very reluctant to use these powers, as they're just another layer of bizarre on top of [[ForcedTransformation what already happened]].
* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'':
** Invoked with Buddy Rose to some degree. He is so good, he can even restore dead plants.
** Melantha from ''My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic III''.
* Caster in ''Fanfic/TheSagesDisciple'' has the title "Sage of the Forest" for good reason. So far, he's used his woodshaping abilities to craft Wicker Men golems and Team Caster's base camp.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', aside from the canon characters like Hashirama Senju and Tenzo/Yamato, [[spoiler: Jiraiya and Tsunade's daughter, Kaida]], is revealed to have Wood Release while tending to the garden's plants. Much later, [[spoiler: Rin Nohara comes BackFromTheDead, and the process granted her, among other abilities, the use of Wood Release.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TealovesSteamyAdventure'', the villainous cultist sends an army of mobile plants to attack the protagonists.
* ''Fanfic/AFlowersTouch'': Aerith finds that she can thread the Lifestream through plants and cause them to grow at an extremely fast rate.
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* Franchise/TheDCU has The Green, an elemental force connected to all plant life and the source of plant-based powers. Notable people with connections to The Green include:
** Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Pamela "ComicBook/PoisonIvy" Isley, one of the most famous examples of this trope . Her levels of deadliness vary across different adaptations, as she didn't receive her plant controlling power until the post crisis continuity. In the one shot Batman: Poison Ivy, her powers are strong enough to grow an entire jungle on an barren island. She has shown some capacity for [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls good]], also. When Gotham was in the midst of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand No Man's Land]]'', Ivy killed Clayface and used her powers to grow fruits and vegetables for the stranded people to eat in a coordinated effort with Batman, and ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' shows that her gardens are almost singlehandedly responsible for feeding Gotham while it's under the dome. Other times, she can at times be an eco-terrorist, ranging from destroying polluting industries to considering exterminating the human race so they'll knock off the polluting. Otherwise, she gets her kicks by feeding people to giant pitcher plants and Venus Fly traps. Lady's in [[CardboardPrison Arkham]] for a reason.
** Her predecessor, Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
** Creator/VertigoComics' ComicBook/BlackOrchid, who had a variety of plant-based powers.
** ComicBook/SwampThing and Tefe Holland; the former of whom is, well, practically a living swamp as well as champion of The Parliament of the Trees, and the latter, his sort-of child, who shares his control over plants (among other abilities).
** ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica villain Blackbriar Thorn, an ancient druid leader from Roman days, is the oldest and, DependingOnTheWriter, strongest champion of the Green.
** The Parliament of the Trees, a communal mind of plant elementals living in the Green's dimension that protect the biosphere.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': Peony [=McGill=]/Star Blossom has the power of chlorokinesis.
** Star Lily of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'' has the ability to make plants grow even in the most inhospitable places.
* Redlance in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. And, of course, his ancestor, Goodtree.
* Green Thumb in ''ComicBook/TheFreshmen''.
* ComicBook/TheHeap is capable of quickly rooting itself to the ground and blending itself into foliage. It is also able to exert limited control over plant life in its immediate vicinity.
* ''ComicBook/TheHerderWitch'': One of Morie the witch's magical abilities. How she eludes the star seers' first attempt to kill her is by creating a new forest right in the flat valley she's caught in, allowing her cover to hide.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Chlorophyll Kid of the "Substitute Heroes" has this essentially taken to its logical conclusion -- he can accelerate the growth of plants, and that's his only power. The inability to actually ''control'' plants is the largest reason for him never being accepted.
* Plantman of [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]]. A fairly lame villain, which he lampshades in ''Paradise X'' when he points out that [[CutLexLuthorACheck he could easily have used his abilities to feed the hungry]] instead of for theft. (ComicBook/SpiderMan tells him this in an earlier story where he goes gunning for revenge against ''ComicBook/GenerationX''; the villain thanks him for the career advice, but says, "I've always had my heart on world domination".) TookALevelInBadass when he joined the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' and renamed himself "Blackheath".
* Klara Prast in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''
* The villainous El Seed in ''ComicBook/TheTick''
* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' has Cornelia, the Earth Guardian, who provides the page picture. She is capable of some pretty cool stuff, including growing immense plants.
* ComicBook/XMen has the GentlemanThief and reformed villain Black Tom Cassidy. Less prominent mutants with plant-based powers include Humus Sapien, Sycamore, Tree Man, and the sadly deceased Pako.
* ''ComicBook/{{Inhumans}}'': One of the evil inhumans is an inhuman named Timberius, who resembles a humanoid tree, and has the power to control plants, he can even grow vines strong enough to temporarily restrain the hulk.
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