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* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The WorldTree worshipped by the people of the Alzer Republic offers PowerTattoo crests that follow a strict hierarchy enforcing the nation's FantasticCasteSystem, where lower nobles' spells are nullified when used against higher nobles. Notably, the tree has a will of it's own, and will DePower anyone who violates that will, typically by [[TheOathbreaker being caught oath breaking.]] The spells include vines that act as AntiMagic.

* Klara Prast in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''

* ''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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Isabela Madrigal has the gift of growing plants to her will. Initially its mostly flowers, befitting the very feminine, beautiful young woman she is, but [[spoiler:that's only because of pressures her Abuela and society has placed upon her, and when she starts freeing herself from it, she begins experimenting and sprouting other plants, like cacti, palm trees, and carnivorous sundews]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Pun}} A real kick-grass power.]]]]

-->-- ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', [[Recap/GunnerkriggCourtChapter14TheFangsOfSummertime "The Fangs of Summertime"]]

The power of supernatural control of plants (and usually [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fungi]], too) via [[SuperpowerLottery Super Powers]], AppliedPhlebotinum or magic. People with this can essentially make plants grow, make them move around like animals, create vines from the earth, summon poison ivy, [[WhenTreesAttack sic trees on you]], and so on.

** Admiral Ryokugyu, aka Aramaki, ate the Woods-Woods Fruit, a Logia-class Devil Fruit that grants him control over plant life. It allows him to wrap up and drain his enemies with CombatTentacles, fly around on a helicopter rotor made out of large leaves, and it has helped him survive for years without eating any solid food, via photosynthesis and nutrient absorption.

* WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}: Isabela Madrigal has the gift of growing plants to her will. Initially its mostly flowers, befitting the very feminine, beautiful young woman she is, but [[spoiler:that's only because of pressures her Abuela and society has placed upon her, and when she starts freeing herself from it, she begins experimenting and sprouting other plants, like cacti, palm trees, and carnivorous sundews]].

%%* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Russel and Fletcher Tringham are very good at using alchemy this way.%%What way?

** . ''Manga/StoneOcean'': ''Something'' has this power, causing all the dead prisoners in the punishment block to erupt into woody vines that flex and shift to move [[MacGuffin DIO's Bone]] around and gestate the Green Baby as a seed. It's not made clear exactly who or what caused it; whether it was an aftereffect of Limp Bizkit, some property of DIO's Bone, some combination of the above, or something else entirely.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Wood Style/Mokuton Kekkei Genkai gives its wielder the ability to create wood from some strange fusion of Earth and Water jutsus and allows full control of all wooden entities as well as the ability to suppress a Tailed Beast’s chakra (possibly a reference to how trees were often used to [[SealedEvilInACan contain monsters]] in Japanese mythology). Only one person was ever able to use it naturally: Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, and because of this, others need his DNA implanted in them to use it as well, making the only known users early on him and Yamato (who had Hashirama's DNA implanted into him by Orochimaru at a young age, a process that killed the other 39 subjects due to them losing control of the cells and being turned into trees in the process). [[spoiler:Other users include Danzo Shimura, Obito Uchiha, and Madara Uchiha, who also spliced his DNA into themselves, and the White Zetsu and Tobi/Spiral Zetsu, who were created with it.]]

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':

* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'': Taruto turns regular plants into PlantAliens in order to use this ability. The other enemies just use mutant animals for their [[MonsterOfTheWeek MOTWs]].

* Green Thumb in ''ComicBook/TheFreshmen''.

* The villainous El Seed in ''ComicBook/TheTick''

* ''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.

* ''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.]]

* ''Fanfic/AFlowersTouch'': Aerith finds that she can thread the Lifestream through plants and cause them to grow at an extremely fast rate.

* ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'':

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* 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.

* The spot where Isha falls to Earth in ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'' is covered in green within moments.
* 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.

* 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.

* 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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* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' Queen Tara can control the forest.
* WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}: Isabela Madrigal has the gift of growing plants to her will. Initially its mostly flowers, befitting the very feminine, beautiful young woman she is, but [[spoiler:that's only because of pressures her Abuela and society has placed upon her, and when she starts freeing herself from it, she begins experimenting and sprouting other plants, like cacti, palm trees, and carnivorous sundews]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree'' The eponymous Gaea Everfree has this power. [[spoiler: Both the "legend" and [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide Gloriosa]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist Daisy]], where the latter surrounds Camp Everfree in vines after she transforms from using too much Equestrian magic.]]
* ''WesternANimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' has a protagonist that has a ''literal'' green thumb, which can grow plants and bring them to life, and even create enormously tall plants as well.
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* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The WorldTree worshipped by the people of the Alzer Republic offers PowerTattoo crests that follow a strict hierarchy enforcing the nation's FantasticCasteSystem, where lower nobles' spells are nullified when used against higher nobles. Notably, the tree has a will of it's own, and will DePower anyone who violates that will, typically by [[TheOathbreaker being caught oath breaking.]] The spells include vines that act as AntiMagic.

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%%* ''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.
* ''VideoGane/MarioPartyStarRush'': Peach, Daisy, and Toadette have the ability to make flower buds bloom by landing nearby them. Doing so will earn a handful of coins for their team.
* ''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, Galar Gym Leader Milo and Paldea Gym Leader Brassius all specialize in Grass-type Pokémon.
** Oddly, the most straightforward example of this trope might be the Pokémon 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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* 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]].