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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown "Mission to the Unknown"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]] have the Varga plants on the Planet Kembel -- homicidal mobile plants which infect people, first making them turn into homicidal maniacs, and then into Varga plants. They are native to Skaro, which suggests that they might be another of Davros' projects.
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* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Second Chance", the galaxy houses several intergalactic nations made entirely of sentient plant aliens. Also, for some odd reason, most of these nations happen to be theocratic.

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* They're never directly identified as plants, but the green-skinned Namekians of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' don't eat any kind of food and drink only water, because they get everything else they need for nourishment from photosynthesis. Physically, they're more like slug-people.

* The Ten Tailed Beast in ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' was a blood-drinking, life force-draining alien tree worshipped as a god. And that was before Kaguya Ōtsutsuki - a {{human alien|s}} - fused with it to become the Ten-Tailed Beast.
* In ''Manga/OutlawStar'' there is a sentient cactus that can control people's actions by vibrating its quills. A nod to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]]", the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode mentioned below, maybe?
* Cosmo from ''Anime/SonicX'' and by extension her species including the [[spoiler: Metarex]]
* The alien Tart's power in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' is creating mutated vines; in the anime, this was altered to changing Earth plants.
* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' has Celine, a giant sentient friendly ManEatingPlant that lives in Rito's back yard. After she (apparently) becomes ill, Rito and company travel to an entire planet of hostile PlantAliens in search of a cure. Turns out [[spoiler: Celine was just entering her next biological stage: a little girl with a flower growing out of her head.]]
** Momo has an entire collection of these she can summon through her phone at anytime.
* In an episode of ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', Scorponok used Daniel to sneak seeds of giant {{man eating plant}}s to San Francisco and the Autobots' Athenia base. Said plants later uprooted themselves and walked around, making them true plant aliens.

* The most powerful, terrifying alien in the galaxy of ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' (so much so that he has a private teleportation system for getting around and a pocket-sized black hole trash can) is Lord Thezmothete. Thezmothete's right-hand-entity is He-Who-Must-Be-Watered, who looks like a large arrangement of exotic flowers in a hovering bowl.
* The Cotati are intelligent, telepathic alien trees in Creator/MarvelComics.
* Groot from ''Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', with a healthy serving of WhenTreesAttack mixed in.
* A particularly creepy ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' example. The title character is a disembodied consciousness, who forms his body from the plantlife surrounding him. This works well on Earth, where the flora is just flora, and can be twisted and reshaped with impunity. When he lands on an alien planet and is surrounded by sentient plants, it's outright BodyHorror the way they're twisted and crammed together to form the body of a giant space alien. (For reference, imagine ''human beings'' being used for the same purpose...)
** For the record, said planet was the homeworld of the plantlike [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Comicbook/GreenLantern named Medphyll (who arrives to reason with Swampy).
* Atom and Swamp Thing foe, occasional ally of ComicBook/PoisonIvy, and [[HeelFaceTurn onetime]] [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians New Guardian]] Jason [[MeaningfulName Wood]]rue, a.k.a. the Floronic Man, was a humanoid who came from an interdimensional planet populated by a race of dryads, and gained [[WhenTreesAttack a tree-like form]]. His early pre-Crisis Atom stories have him using Earth as a base from which he would try to conquer his homeworld. His alien origin is dropped in the ComicBook/New52, where Jason is now an [[PlantPerson American-born human given a tree-like form]], and is known as the Seeder.
* In ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'', when Drummond is informed that the animal-like lifeforms he's looking at can photosynthesize, he's surprised and asks if they're plants. He's told that "animal" and "plant" aren't really valuable biological distinctions for things from a completely different planet; they ''could'' be called plant aliens, but that's just applying Earth terminology to things that don't really follow Earth rules.

* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has the Evronians, who first come to life as large fungus-like "spores" before maturing as fully mobile ducklike aliens, and even as adults maintain the ability to turn back in their very resilient spore form when in mortal danger. The enormous reproductive rate coming from their fungal nature, alongside the fact modern Evronians actually ''clone'' said spores, is one of the reasons they are a HordeOfAlienLocusts, as they ''have'' to find new worlds to invade and, after a certain point, [[spoiler:turn into {{Planet Spaceship}}s to divide their numbers by half and go other ways to avoid a genocidal civil war]].

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* Lest we forget, the ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' films and cartoon series.
** Including even the film played in a drive-in in the animated series, featuring broccolis doing the Star-Wars-I-have-a-bad-feeling routine.
* Non-sentient example: the fast-spreading plant organisms from ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''.

* WordOfGod states that Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial's species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.
* The truly terrible scifi/comedy ''Invasion of the Star Creatures'' had a couple of carrot monsters under the control of the eponymous [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe star creatures]].
* The enormous, demonic-faced marrow-on-wheels from ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld''.

* ''Film/{{Matango}}'', a Japanese horror film, features fungi that take over human bodies. In the U.S., it had the more "colorful" title ''Attack of the Mushroom People''.
** Note that these aren't technically aliens (that we know of), just an isolated parasitic species on a uncharted pacific island.
* The title creature from the 1951 film ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' is a plant-like humanoid lifeform.
** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode mentioned below, "The Seeds of Doom", was heavily inspired by this film.

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* The one about the mushroom that walked into a bar, was refused service, and pointed out he was a really [[IncrediblyLamePun fun-guy]].
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* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
** Broccoli is alien as revealed in ''Megamorphs'' #2. There's nothing remarkable about it (it is broccoli after all, it was just brought by alien immigrants millions of years ago) but as Marco jokes, it explains so much about the weird taste.
** One of the [[spoiler:genetically modified]] monsters of the Hork-Bajir home world, the ''Lerdethak'', seems to be a kind of plant. If so, [[BigBad Visser Three]] morphing into one (in book #11) is the one known example of someone acquiring a plant.
* In [[Creator/KurdLasswitz Kurd Laßwitz]]'s ''Auf zwei Planeten'' (1897), one of the first things Josef Saltner sees on the Martian base on the North Pole is a Ro-Wa, a lily-like Martian flower that "dances" sinuously and chirps like a bird. In Laßwitz' short story ''Die entflohene Blume'' ("The Escapee Flower") there is another Martian flower called Dukchen, which is even capable of intelligent thought and to communicate with its owner, the Martial girl Ha. It is normally sedentary, but in spring the blossoms take flight to take root elsewhere.
* ''Literature/BasLagCycle'': ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' and its sequels have humanoid cacti, the Cactacae, many of whom live in a huge greenhouse. Their thick cell walls render them immune to most weapons.
* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Cat-A-Lyst'', the protagonists meet up with a starfaring band of treelike aliens who possess genius-level intelligence but are somewhat lacking in the common-sense department.
* The 1950s novel ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' featured strange plants that were in the habit of walking around and killing people with their deadly stingers. Ordinarily a rake and a good dose of weed killer would be enough to dispatch them, but mankind had been blinded by a meteor shower... Strictly the triffids' origins were never explicitly established, with one of the protagonists believing an alternative theory that they were the terrestrial product of Soviet plant breeding experiments. The 'Meteor Shower' may or may not have been a man-made weapon.
* ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', and the other related sequels to ''Literature/EndersGame'', have the ''pequeninos'', which after dying become sentient trees.
** In fact, every native species (only a few dozen species exist) on that planet had an animal/plant duality to its life cycle. It's an important plot point when the humans figure out WHY and actually explains the single-biome nature of the planet (it's all just fields and forests).
** The cause of all this is [[spoiler:the Descolada, a highly-adaptable virus capable of infecting any living thing. It unravels any DNA strand it comes into contact with, causing the death of any organism that has not adapted to it. Humans can only survive it by ingesting genetically-engineered food supplements daily, and all who contract it are carriers. When the Descolada first appeared on Lusitania, it wiped out the vast majority of plant and animal species, leaving behind those that managed to adapt and use the Descolada as part of their lifecycle. Essentially, this means that various animals are, at different stages in their lives, plants and vice versa. The "piggies", local primitive sentients, turn into trees when properly killed (it's a great honor) and retain some of their consciousness as plants, whose sap is used to fertilize female "piggies" (which look like tiny snakes). When the [[TheFederation Starways Congress]] finds out about the Descolada, they send a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Luckily, thanks to the lack of FTL travel, the fleet won't arrive for decades]].
* The stingbulbs from the ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'' series start out as little fruits, but if you prick your finger on one, it turns into an exact replica of you. It's not a perfect copy, though — a few memories are missing, it doesn't necessarily think and act like you (it obeys the orders it receives after transformation), and it only lives for a few days.
* There is a TearJerker story by Edmond Hamilton about a man who has seeds from another planet land in his backyard and grow into a green humanoid couple. The problem is, [[spoiler: the human and the girl fall in love with each other, and the alien guy kills the girl the moment he can actually move towards her (they initially have roots)]]. The human goes to live in a desert - can't stand green anymore.
%%* ''Literature/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers}}''.
* A rare sessile example would be the titular aliens from the [[GoldenAge classic]] short story "The Lotos Eaters" by Stanley Weinbaum. In fact, their immobility is kind of the point. They're a race who wholeheartedly disbelieve in free will or life having any meaning -- and if you hang around them long enough, they'll telepathically convince ''you'' of it, too, pulling you over a DespairEventHorizon so that you [[EnthrallingSiren no longer think it's worth the bother to get up and leave their territory.]] When one explorer starts succumbing to this effect faster than the other, the first has to practically drag the second out of range of the creatures' telepathic influence.

** The Elder Things in ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', which are the original StarfishAliens and have tissues more like plants than animals.
* ''Lukan War'' (1969) had plant aliens from another galaxy come into conflict with the united Milky Way. They were also, for some {{Handwave}} reason, [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]] -- and we were likewise invisible to them (both sides could see the others' ''ships'', though). The various species of our galaxy were aghast at the [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman "unnaturalness" of intelligent plant life]], and began calling for a genocidal crusade, at which point the narrator, who'd earlier been scorned as overly militaristic, wound up being the most nearly pacifist person in the discussion.
* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Omnivore'' is set on a world where fungal life forms take the place of animal life. One species of mobile fungus, nicknamed "mantas" for their shape, combines this trope with StarfishAlien.
* The protagonist of ''Pkhentz'' by Andrei Sinyavsky is a plant-like alien who was stranded from his home planet when his ship crashed and disguises himself as a human [[HumansThroughAlienEyes so he can live among people unnoticed]]. He isn't very happy.
* Creator/BruceCoville's ''Literature/RodAlbrightAlienAdventures'' series includes a sentient plant named Phil among its crew. (Phillogenous esk Piemondum, in full.) He looks just like a giant flower in a floating pot and speaks by 'burping' air through his pods. When the main character expresses astonishment that a plant could talk, he responds, "You're made of meat. It's a wonder you can think at all." Which is also a ShoutOut to [[Literature/TheyreMadeOutOfMeat this story]].
* The AACP of ''Literature/SectorGeneral''. It is even mentioned that the creator of the classification scheme failed to take the possibility of intelligent plants, and is in fact used in every book as the prime example of how the system is imperfect.

** The Citoac in the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse (see Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers).
** The Mabrae, another Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse culture (appearing in ''Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra'' and ''Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch''), are animals but live symbiotically with plants that grow on their bodies, and are tailored to each individual. Security guards have tough bark as natural body armour, diplomats and politicians grow exotic colourful flowers. These plants are essentially the Mabrae's clothes. They consider segregation between leaf and flesh barbaric.
** In Creator/DianeDuane's novel ''Literature/DoctorsOrders'', the Lahit are basically walking fir trees. Upon seeing a group of them, [=McCoy=] snarks that [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} Birnham Wood finally gets to come to Dunsinane]].

** In the short story "Day of the Sepulchral Night". Sentient, humanoid, plant species called Zelosians. Zelosians are basically Ridiculously Human Plant Aliens. They bleed green, have very vivid green eyes, and can live for a month on water and sunlight, but otherwise are basically human, down to digestive tracts and reproduction. They're even classified as "Near-Human", implying that they're [[HalfHumanHybrid capable of interbreeding with humans]]. Somehow. Lampshaded by one of them in ''Literature/DeathStar'', when he wonders if any geneticists have been able to make sense of his kind.

* Old-school science fiction fans will remember the red alien weed laid down by the Martians in Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. This may be the origin of the trope. Although the red weed didn't move around or think, so far as we know. It was probably just the Martian equivalent of grass or something.
* In Creator/RobertReed's short story ''To Church With Mr.Multhiford'', the titular farmer theorizes that corn is an alien invader of sorts, but [[BenevolentAlienInvasion beneficial]]. His farm has frequent CropCircles and has one of the highest yields in the area. He claims that man didn't domesticate corn, but that corn [[ThisIsMyHuman domesticated man]]; we plow the ground, water it, and propagate its children, and it rewards us with food and wealth. Empires that didn't care for its crops - the Soviet Union, Ancient Greece and Rome - all failed as farmers because they couldn't keep the crops happy.
* The Kanten in David Brin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series. They were [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]] to be sentient over a period of roughly a hundred thousand years, so it may be justifiable. They are small trees but can walk and talk, and are no "closer to nature" than animal-like aliens. They are one of the few species allied to Earthclan. Mulc-"spiders" are a species of sapient, but sessile, plant-like things quite unlike any life on Earth, which exist to dissolve cities after planets are declared fallow and evacuated.
* ''The Venom of Argus'' by Edmund Cooper (writing as Richard Avery). An alien tree similar to the tangle tree in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels by Creator/PiersAnthony: long tentacles that grab victims and take them to its mouth to be dissolved.
* The Czillians from Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/WellWorld'' series are bipedal sentient plants. They are a lot more plant-like and a lot less humanoid then many of the other examples.
* The Demisiv in ''Literature/YoungWizards'' look like walking Christmas trees with berry-like eyes.
* Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'': The skrode-riders in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' and ''Literature/TheChildrenOfTheSky'' are part-plant AIs that live just about everywhere in the inhabited galaxy, and turn out to be quite important to the plot.

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "The Man-Eater of Surrey Green" featured a giant plant that was using psychic powers to control a team of scientists to help it spread its seeds across the world. It then ate them all, as was its wont. The episode also featured a baffling off-hand reference to forests on the moon!

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown "Mission to the Unknown"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]] had the Varga plants on the Planet Kembel — homicidal mobile plants which infect people, first making them turn into homicidal maniacs, and then into Varga plants. And they are native to Skaro, which suggests that they might be another of Davros' projects.
** The seaweed creature from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep "Fury from the Deep"]].
** The classic story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom "The Seeds of Doom"]] had an alien plant that also transformed people into plants -- shades of BodyHorror there.
** The wolf weeds from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]], the evil shape-shifting ''cactus'' who wanted to take over the universe. [[IncrediblyLamePun What a prick]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids Vervoids]].
** A new series episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] also featured bipedal, talking plants that had evolved from trees in the Brazilian rainforest. However, in appearance they were more like RubberForeheadAliens — or, in Jabe's case, GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. They have concealed tentacles ("I'm not supposed to show them in public"), and consider being breathed on a rather "intimate" gift. "There's more where that came from."
* Zhaan from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is a HumanAlien plant. It is for the most part treated as no different from the various other biological quirks of the aliens in the series (we aren't even told until late in the first season).
** Becomes a plot point in one episode when she starts "budding" and growing more aggressive because her body needs to feed on some animal protein once in a while.
** Those "photogasms" from intense multi-source sunlight look FUN.

* On ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', Lykka is a carnivorous plant which takes her form from the thoughts of those nearby, which she sprouts as a form of camouflage.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "Moonstone" features the Grippians, an alien race who are basically sentient anenomes.
* A number of monsters from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' are humanoid plants, such as the Bloom of Doom from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.

* The Wyann, the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Aliens of the Week]] in ''Series/UltraSeven'''s second episode "The Green Terror", are this. Specifically, they're sentient mobile masses of thorny shrubbery [[OurVampiresAreDifferent that turn humans into more of their kind by drinking their blood]].
* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' was about a sprawling underground fungi that hypnotized people into thinking they were in a nice safe place, like a bed in cabin, to immobilize them and devour them. It almost got Mulder and Scully. This plot was based on a news report about a fungus in Oregon that is two miles across and may be the largest living thing on Earth.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Flower Child", a plant-based alien, the [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Its Kind]], travelled to Earth via a meteor. It became embedded in the soil of a community garden of a UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco apartment building and grew into a strange plant overnight. After it kills Mary Cummings with its stinger, the alien uses the energy that it absorbed in the process to transform itself into a beautiful young woman named Violet. Taking up residence in Mary's apartment, Violet seeks to procreate and produces a scent which men find seductive. She sets her sights on Chris, who has just moved into the building with his fiancée Mia and is experiencing pre-wedding jitters. Chris initially manages to resist temptation due to his commitment to remain faithful to Mia but the landlord Mr. Sylvano is less strong-willed and is killed by Violet for his trouble. Chris eventually succumbs to her charms and they have sex. As a result, Violet obtains Chris' seed and uses it to produce millions of offspring which she ejects from her body through the mouth. Her species will soon spread all over Earth and replace humanity as the dominant species.
* A giant sentient flower named Grugen makes a cameo on ''Series/TheOrville'', voiced by ''Creator/BruceWillis''.

* One verse of Leslie Fish's classic ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' FilkSong "Music/BannedFromArgo" is:

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* Also featured in ''Pinball/AsteroidAnnieAndTheAliens''.
* Featured among the various aliens in ''Pinball/BigBangBar''.

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* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''The Red Planet''. Lemmy suspects that the Martians may be vegetable men.
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* ''TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD'' in the adventure ''Energy Curve''. The Klaxun are mobile plants with human level intelligence.
* The Migo (actually named ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]'' here, but so what) appear in all their Lovecraftian glory as one of the two main antagonists of ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', and they brought HumongousMecha with them.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, a race of sentient plant people are going to be introduced in the Heroes of Feywild called "Hamadryad". They can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter.
** The "Hamadryad" existed in the 3rd edition where they were called "Killoren" and were explicitly a plant-based member of The Fair Folk.
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' has the Plant [[PlayerCharacter character]] origin, as well as a number of plant-based monsters.
** One {{NPC}} is Columbia, a sentient vine forest occupying the entire Columbia Building.
* The [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184711 thallids]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' are fungus-creatures that come in a [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184485 staggering]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=116743 variety]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=111068 of shapes]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=130323 and sizes]].

* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' the entire moon of Ganymede is covering in plant life, both earth-like and animal analogues.

* The Orks of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are have had a weird history with this trope. About the only thing that has remained constant is that they [[MonogenderMonsters reproduce asexually]], giving off spores through their life which grow new Orks in underground wombs; they release extra spores upon death, and as a result are basically impossible to completely wipe out. It's also implied they can photosynthesize. As for what else is canon, well, the writers haven't been able to find something that makes sense. They've gone from a symbiotic relationship between a mammal-like creature and a fungus, meaning they have green skin but red blood, to fungus/algae/vertebrate hybrids (after somebody pointed out the difference between plants and fungi).
** There are also a few more conventional examples, such as the Brainleaf and Spiker, both of which reproduce by converting anything that crosses their path into another of their kind.

* Technically not an alien, as it was created by a MadScientist like everything else, but the Morbuzahk, a sentient, EldritchAbomination-style plant that tries to take over Metru Nui in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', probably qualifies.
** There's also its prototype the Kharzhani (not to be confused with the ancient EvilOverlord it was named after).

* ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' brings us Argim. Technically he was an iskai (standard alien species in the game), untill one of his experiments with immortality caused the psychic organ connected to his brain to somehow fuse with the plants that make up his home, effectively turning him into a living dungeon.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Aleste}}'' and ''Aleste 2'', heroine Ellinor is battling a horde of super-intelligent plants trying to take over the world.
* All of the plants in ''VideoGame/{{Germination}}''.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' introduces the sylvari, humanoid plants that are born from the Pale Tree fully grown. Prior to birth they experience visions of the real world in the Dream, which is derived from the sylvari's collected knowledge and emotions. [[spoiler:We later learn they originated from the elder dragon Mordremoth and were raised into being good by Ronin and Ventari, a human and centaur who were sick of the war between their factions.]]
* The Unfallen from ''Videogame/EndlessSpace2'', essentially moving, sentient trees. They were content with just slow and peaceful advancement ever since they became sentient right until two other races had a skirmish above their planet; this woke them up, and made them think they should go out into the galaxy and try to calm things down, [[TechnicalPacifist hopefully in a peaceful manner]].
* The Thorian from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is one huge plant-like... thing that can [[TheVirus control sapient creatures through spores]].
* ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 3'' had the Audrieh and Phaigour as minor non-playable races. Their exact natures were never really clarified beyond being categorized as "Plant" and "Fungal" respectively.
* Two of the many diverse aliens found in ''VideoGame/{{Meteos}}'' can be classified here: the sentient clairvoyant flowers of the planet Florias and the symbiotic living trees of Wuud/Arborea.
* The peaceful merchants called Muscipulans from ''VideoGame/{{Otherspace}}'' are man-sized Venus fly traps with dozens of wriggling tentacles for locomotion.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': Part PlantAliens, part social insects, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter all cute]]. Not quite "alien" though: The setting of the game is heavily implied to be Earth AfterTheEnd. There's also the walking, delicious fungus Puffstool with mutagenic spores.
* The second area of ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'' ("The innocent abandoned") in under control of Mother, a massive plant-being and a WellIntentionedExtremist who is disgusted by the idea of meat beings, but consider the children to be precious innocents and want to save them... by turning them into plants and integrating them in herself. [[spoiler:She's also an allegory for the disease.]]
* The antagonists of ''VideoGame/ScienceGirls'', complete with "They're ''not'' plants, that's not how plants work!" lecture from Biology Girl.
* The Xenofungus from ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' is the base for the Planet-wide HiveMind.
* Not actually an alien, (well, [[HalfHumanHybrid usually]],)but in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' expansion pack Seasons, your sims can be turned into "[=PlantSims=]" by using too much insecticide.

* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'' has this both as a playable race, the Florans, and an NPC race, the Agarians. The Florans subvert the nature-loving plant people stereotype by being violent, bloodthirsty, caveman-like carnivores and are thought little of by the other, fleshy races. The Agarians are mushroom people who speak a language that is unaffected by the player's TranslationConvention, making their origins and motives very mysterious. Occasionally, you'll find a settlement of them having Florans imprisoned in underground dungeons, hinting at some sort of relationship between them.

* The Supox in ''VideoGame/StarControlII''. When the protagonist protests that human scientists (and science-fiction authors) have proven that intelligent plant life is a scientific impossibility, the Supox spokesman replies, "Yes. This has been confirmed by our people as well. Strange, is it not? Many of our people regard this inconsistency as proof of our divine origin." Luckily, they aren't [[ScaryDogmaticAliens jerks about it]].
** From the same game come the Mycon, a race of fungoid aliens created by the {{Precursors}} as biological terraforming devices. However, over the millennia they have gone rogue, developed a religion centered around the worship of "Juffo-Wup" and basically do the opposite of their original mission (they transform verdant worlds into ones they have been adapted to live in, i.e. barren hellscapes). [[note]]This info isn't explicitly stated within ''[=SC2=]'', but has been stated by [[WordOfGod the original creators]], Fred and Paul, in an IRC chat.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', it's been mentioned that the Protoss photosynthesize.
* The Elowan from the ''VideoGame/{{Starflight}}'' games.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has the Whittles from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''.
* The [[LittleGreenMen Martians]] from ''VideoGame/UFOAfterlight'' are actually plant-like humanoid aliens. You kill them with [[RuleOfCool Chainsaw Launchers]] and [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas]].
* The wildlife on Mars in ''VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams'' is often moving plants (die, roaming cacti, die!). This includes the sentient inhabitants.
* [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Five different species]] of aggressive lunar plants pose obstacles to your explorations in ''Voyage: Inspired By Jules Verne''. Their fruit is crucial to completion of the game.

* Mobile plant- and fungus-based creatures exist in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe. Notable ones are bogbeasts (shambling swamp thing-type creatures), lashers (flower-like plants with small roots for lef and tentacle-like vines) and fungal giants (giant creatures made ouf of fungi). Spore bats may be fungus-based, too, but it's not really clear.
** Also the Sporelings, a group of fungus-based humanoids in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' that are friendly to players and sell some unique items and recipes (including a pet sporebat) for those who build reputation with them.
* The Eaggra from the 1996 RTS ''VideoGame/WarWind'' are a numerous plant species that was used for slave labour by the reptilian Tha Roon before [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters the inevitable uprising]].

* The Spriggs from ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy'' are closer to elves than aliens, but they otherwise fit. They have leaves or flowers growing from their heads, they call their young "sprouts", and they're implied to have sap instead of blood.
* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' has Lord Thezmothete and his plant-folk. On the local power ladder, Humanity (as a whole, not individual humans) is level 12. The Teleporter (the single not-from-this-universe critter who can juggle planets around) is level 8. "His Lordship" is level 1.

* Quercus from ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' is a tree being from the planet [[StealthPun Fagalia]]. He ''really'' dislikes florists.

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* The Flowers that lead the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' are this, with the twist that they were originally plants from ''Earth'' that ended up on another planet due to a literal PlotHole.
* The speculative biology project ''Snaiad'' has animal and plant like alien lifeforms. Thing is, unlike in our world the distinction between "plants" and "animals" isn't as clear because some "plant" and "animal" groups (most notably the vertebrate analogues) evolved from things with animal and plant characteristics. WordOfGod states that the "vertebrates" still have a lethal relic of this: ''vegetative cancer''
* As the ''Blog/WhatIf'' entry [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/17/ "Green Cows"]] demonstrates, there wouldn't be much point to engineering a photosynthetic cow: it'd still need to consume almost as much food as regular cows.
* SCP-1923 is a forest on an asteroid.
* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Second Chance", the galaxy houses several intergalactic nations made entirely of sentient plant aliens. Also, for some odd reason, most of these nations happen to be theocratic.

* Wildvine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''. Cleverly, his species is called "Florauna" (Flora/Fauna).
** Swampfire from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. A plant guy that attacks with ''fire'', of all things.
*** [[SuperMode Ultimate]] Swampfire from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' looks like a tree and wields [[StuffBlowingUp explosive savia]].

* Botanica from ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' is a ''robot'' plant alien --who took her form from an entire ''planet'' of plant aliens-- and the style of the series plus her [[TechnicalPacifist personal philosophy]] makes it hard to keep track of which mode is which.

* For some reason, ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' seems to run into a lot of hostile, talking fruits and vegetables. Not all of them are space aliens, but some are.
* The villains of the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Twin Beaks": they grow as plants, but their eventual form is a copy of someone in duck society. Their infiltration is halted partly through the aid of ''other'' aliens, [[spoiler: talking cows]].
** Also, though not technically an alien, but changed anyways, is Reginald Bushroot, a scientist who got turned into a walking, talking, mad plant.
* While not "aliens" per se, the [[OurElvesAreBetter Wuts]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' are increasingly revealed to be plantlike in more than just their green and vaguely leafy-looking appearance. In one episode, we see a yellowish and aged-looking Wut step into a pool of water...and in the time it takes to pan to the water and back to his face, he becomes recognizable again as one of the main characters.
* The Monster Minds in ''WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors'', using giant vines to travel between worlds. Unique in the listed examples as being plant-cyborgs.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' featured an invasion by broccoli-shaped aliens. With their parents captured, the children of Townsville resorted to eating the intruders, at the [=PPGs=] behest. (Obviously, the {{Aesop}} to be learned here was to eat your vegetables... but hypnosis by eating vegetables was [[BrokenAesop what brought up this situation in the first place]].)
** Relish Rampage, a tie-in game, had them defeating alien pickles.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost''

* "Chlorofilla vom blauen Himmel", a cute Italian/German kids series.
* For completeness sake, one episode of Animation/TheLittleMole has a magic spring turn everyone into singers. It works also on plants. (And even on inanimate stuff like the mole's spade!)

* The Mazone of ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' are plant-based alien women, blue like Zhaan from ''Farscape,'' though they share the RapunzelHair of most female Leiji Matsumoto characters.
* Plant-based Franchise/{{Digimon}} tend to be female. No explanation why is given, though- probably either some "mother nature" thing, or related to the fact that most plant digimon have a flower motif at some point. Grass-type Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, however, are gender dimorphic.
** Most plants (though [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality#Individual_plant_sexuality by no means all]]) are {{Hermaphrodite}}s, and it's doubtful that the TargetAudience would understand that concept.

* ''Series/LostInSpace'' featured a somewhat-infamous episode entitled "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" with an alien carrot as a villain; some of the cast couldn't stop laughing on-camera at how ridiculous it was.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' featured the plant-like Phylosians.

* ''Film/DayOfTheTriffids'': Alien plants come down to Earth in a meteor shower and start walking around and killing people with their deadly stingers.

* Alien plants also featured in the 1950s novel ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' and its subsequent TV and movie adaptations. However, these aliens were in the habit of walking around and killing people with their deadly stingers. Ordinarily a rake and a good dose of weed killer would be enough to dispatch them, but mankind had been blinded by a meteor shower... Strictly the triffids are not aliens in the original novel, they were the product of Soviet plant breeding experiments. The 'Meteor Shower' may or may not have been a man-made weapon. However, in the best-known movie adaptation, they were changed to aliens.

* Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'': The skrode-riders in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' are part-plant AIs that live just about everywhere in the inhabited galaxy, and turn out to be quite important to the plot.

** The Citoac in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse (see Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers).
** The Mabrae, another Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse culture (appearing in ''Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra'' and ''Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch''), are animals but live symbiotically with plants that grow on their bodies, and are tailored to each individual. Security guards have tough bark as natural body armour, diplomats and politicians grow exotic colourful flowers. These plants are essentially the Mabrae's clothes. They consider segregation between leaf and flesh barbaric.

* For completeness sake, one episode of Animation/TheLittleMole has a magic spring turn everyone into singers. It works also on plants. (And even on inanimate stuff like the mole's spade!)

* SCP-1923 is a forest on an asteroid

* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' featured a talking, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating]], mean green mother from outer space called Audrey II.

* The title character in episode 2 of ''Series/UltraSeven'', "The Green Terror", is this.

* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', both the film and [[WesternAnimation/LittleShop spin-off cartoon]], featured a talking, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating]], mean green mother from outer space called Audrey II.
** Actually, in the cartoon the plant is called Audrey Jr. and is not an alien. Rather, it is a plant sprouted from a prehistoric seed.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', broccoli is alien as well, as revealed in ''Megamorphs'' #2. There's nothing remarkable about it (it is broccoli after all, it was just brought by alien immigrants millions of years ago) but as Marco jokes, it explains so much about the weird taste.

* The alien Tart's power in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' is creating mutated vines; in the anime, this was altered to changing Earth plants.

* Plant-based Franchise/{{Digimon}} tend to be female. No explanation why is given, though- probably either some "mother nature" thing, or related to the fact that most plant digimon have a flower motif at some point. Grass-type Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, however, are gender dimorphic.
** Most plants (though [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality#Individual_plant_sexuality by no means all]]) are {{Hermaphrodite}}s, and it's doubtful that the TargetAudience would understand that concept.
* In an episode of ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', Scorponok used Daniel to sneak seeds of giant {{man eating plant}}s to San Francisco and the Autobots' Athenia base. Said plants later uprooted themselves and walked around, making them true plant aliens.
* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' has Celine, a giant sentient friendly ManEatingPlant that lives in Rito's back yard. After she (apparently) becomes ill, Rito and company travel to an entire planet of hostile PlantAliens in search of a cure. Turns out [[spoiler: Celine was just entering her next biological stage: a little girl with a flower growing out of her head.]]
** Momo has an entire collection of these she can summon through her phone at anytime.

* The Mazone of ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' are plant-based alien women, blue like Zhaan from ''Farscape,'' though they share the RapunzelHair of most female Leiji Matsumoto characters.
* They're never directly identified as plants, but the green-skinned Namekians of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' don't eat any kind of food and drink only water, because they get everything else they need for nourishment from photosynthesis. Physically, they're more like slug-people.

* The Ten Tailed Beast in ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' was a blood-drinking, life force-draining alien tree worshipped as a god. And that was before Kaguya Ōtsutsuki - a {{human alien|s}} - fused with it to become the Ten-Tailed Beast.

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* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', both the film and [[WesternAnimation/LittleShop spin-off cartoon]], featured a talking, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating]], mean green mother from outer space called Audrey II.
** Actually, in the cartoon the plant is called Audrey Jr. and is not an alien. Rather, it is a plant sprouted from a prehistoric seed.
* The title creature from the 1951 film ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' is a plant-like humanoid lifeform.
** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode mentioned below, "The Seeds of Doom", was heavily inspired by this film.

* The truly terrible scifi/comedy ''Invasion of the Star Creatures'' had a couple of carrot monsters under the control of the eponymous [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe star creatures]].
* Non-sentient example: the fast-spreading plant organisms from ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''.
* WordOfGod states that Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial's species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.

* Old-school science fiction fans will remember the red alien weed laid down by the Martians in Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. This may be the origin of the trope. Although the red weed didn't move around or think, so far as we know. It was probably just the Martian equivalent of grass or something.

* ''Film/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers}}''.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the short story "Day of the Sepulchral Night". Sentient, humanoid, plant species called Zelosians. Zelosians are basically Ridiculously Human Plant Aliens. They bleed green, have very vivid green eyes, and can live for a month on water and sunlight, but otherwise are basically human, down to digestive tracts and reproduction. They're even classified as "Near-Human", implying that they're [[HalfHumanHybrid capable of interbreeding with humans]]. Somehow. Lampshaded by one of them in ''Literature/DeathStar'', when he wonders if any geneticists have been able to make sense of his kind.
** There are [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Botanical_sentient_species several others]], among whom the Neti (Force-sensitive sentient shapeshifting trees, alternating between a sapling stage, fully mobile periods of a few centuries (in which the females [[NonMammalMammaries have breasts for some reason]]), and a up to millennium of hibernation in the form a big, rooted tree, which can extend to indefinite given the right conditions) and the Baffor Trees (regular, non-sentient trees on their own, but able to link their roots together to create a collective consciousness)
** A one-off joke in Darksaber mentions a carnivorous alien vending a vegetable stand next to a plant-like alien selling hunks of meat.
* The Demisiv in ''Literature/YoungWizards'' look like walking Christmas trees with berry-like eyes.

* ''The Venom of Argus'' by Edmund Cooper (writing as Richard Avery). An alien tree similar to the tangle tree in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels by Creator/PiersAnthony: long tentacles that grab victims and take them to its mouth to be dissolved.

* The Kanten in David Brin's Literature/{{Uplift}} series. They were [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]] to be sentient over a period of roughly a hundred thousand years, so it may be justifiable. They are small trees but can walk and talk, and are no "closer to nature" than animal-like aliens. They are one of the few species allied to Earthclan. Mulc-"spiders" are a species of sapient, but sessile, plant-like things quite unlike any life on Earth, which exist to dissolve cities after planets are declared fallow and evacuated.
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', broccoli is alien as well, as revealed in ''Megamorphs'' #2. There's nothing remarkable about it (it is broccoli after all, it was just brought by alien immigrants millions of years ago) but as Marco jokes, it explains so much about the weird taste.
** One of the [[spoiler:genetically modified]] monsters of the Hork-Bajir home world, the ''Lerdethak,'' seems to be a kind of plant. If so, [[BigBad Visser Three]] morphing into one (in book #11) is the one known example of someone acquiring a plant.
* ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' and its sequels have humanoid cacti, the Cactacae, many of whom live in a huge greenhouse. Their thick cell walls render them immune to most weapons.
* There is a TearJerker story by Edmond Hamilton about a man who has seeds from another planet land in his backyard and grow into a green humanoid couple. The problem is, [[spoiler: the human and the girl fall in love with each other, and the alien guy kills the girl the moment he can actually move towards her (they initially have roots)]]. The human goes to live in a desert - can't stand green anymore.
* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Cat-A-Lyst'', the protagonists meet up with a starfaring band of treelike aliens who possess genius-level intelligence but are somewhat lacking in the common-sense department.
* The Czillians from Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/WellWorld'' series are bipedal sentient plants. They are a lot more plant-like and a lot less humanoid then many of the other examples.
* ''Lukan War'' (1969) had plant aliens from another galaxy come into conflict with the united Milky Way. They were also, for some {{Handwave}} reason, [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]] -- and we were likewise invisible to them (both sides could see the others' ''ships'', though). The various species of our galaxy were aghast at the [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman "unnaturalness" of intelligent plant life]], and began calling for a genocidal crusade, at which point the narrator, who'd earlier been scorned as overly militaristic, wound up being the most nearly pacifist person in the discussion.

* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Omnivore'' is set on a world where fungal life forms take the place of animal life. One species of mobile fungus, nicknamed "mantas" for their shape, combines this trope with StarfishAlien.
* The skrode-riders in Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' are part-plant AIs that live just about everywhere in the inhabited galaxy, and turn out to be quite important to the plot.
* The stingbulbs from the ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'' series start out as little fruits, but if you prick your finger on one, it turns into an exact replica of you. It's not a perfect copy, though--a few memories are missing, it doesn't necessarily think and act like you (it obeys the orders it receives after transformation), and it only lives for a few days.
* A rare sessile example would be the titular aliens from the [[GoldenAge classic]] short story "The Lotos Eaters" by Stanley Weinbaum. In fact, their immobility is kind of the point. They're a race who wholeheartedly disbelieve in free will or life having any meaning -- and if you hang around them long enough, they'll telepathically convince ''you'' of it, too, pulling you over a DespairEventHorizon so that you [[EnthrallingSiren no longer think it's worth the bother to get up and leave their territory.]] When one explorer starts succumbing to this effect faster than the other, the first has to practically drag the second out of range of the creatures' telepathic influence.

* The protagonist of ''Pkhentz'' by Andrei Sinyavsky is a plant-like alien who was stranded from his home planet when his ship crashed and disguises himself as a human [[HumansThroughAlienEyes so he can live among people unnoticed]]. He isn't very happy.
* In ''Literature/{{Semiosis}}'' by Sue Burke, the planet Pax is dominated by many varieties of sentient plant. The smartest of these is a vast, distributed bamboo-like plant which enters into a symbiotic relationship with a colony of humans, who it initially views as mere "animal-tools" but gradually grows to respect as something like equals.

** A new series episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] also featured bipedal, talking plants that had evolved from trees in the Brazilian rainforest. However, in appearance they were more like RubberForeheadAliens -- or, in Jabe's case, GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. They have concealed tentacles ("I'm not supposed to show them in public"), and consider being breathed on a rather "intimate" gift. "There's more where that came from."
** ''Doctor Who'' has also had [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]], the evil shape-shifting ''cactus'' who wanted to take over the universe. [[IncrediblyLamePun What a prick]].
** The seaweed creature from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep "Fury from the Deep"]]
** The wolf weeds from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown "Mission to the Unknown"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]] had the Varga plants on the Planet Kembel -- homicidal mobile plants which infect people, first making them turn into homicidal maniacs, and then into Varga plants. And they are native to Skaro, which suggests that they might be another of Davros' projects.
** Vervoids.
* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "The Man-Eater of Surrey Green" featured a giant plant that was using psychic powers to control a team of scientists to help it spread its seeds across the world. It then ate them all, as was its wont. The episode also featured a baffling off-hand reference to forests on the moon!

* In ''Series/{{Quark}},'' Ficus is a Human Alien in appearance, but because he is actually a Plant Alien, his psychology is that of an emotionless Spock, only more so. His Mirror Universe double is exactly like him because "There are no good or bad plants, only plants."

* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' parodied this beautifully when we find out that broccoli is alien. This is the reason why people in that episode were suddenly turning into broccoli. [[RefugeInAudacity But the space broccoli was a metaphor for AIDS!]]
* The title character in episode 2 of ''Series/UltraSeven'', "The Green Terror", is this.
* A number of monsters from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' are humanoid plants, such as the Bloom of Doom from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.

* Also featured in ''Pinball/AsteroidAnnieAndTheAliens''.

* The Orks of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are have had a weird history with this trope. About the only thing that has remained constant is that they [[MonogenderMonsters reproduce asexually]], giving off spores through their life which grow new Orks in underground wombs; they release extra spores upon death, and as a result are basically impossible to completely wipe out. It's also implied they can photosynthesize. As for what else is canon, well, the writers haven't been able to find something that makes sense. They've gone from a symbiotic relationship between a mammal-like creature and a fungus, meaning they have green skin but red blood, to fungus/algae/vertebrate hybrids (after somebody pointed out the difference between plants and fungi).
** There are also a few more conventional examples, such as the Brainleaf and Spiker, both of which reproduce by converting anything that crosses their path into another of their kind.

* The [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184711 thallids]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' are fungus-creatures that come in a [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184485 staggering]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=116743 variety]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=111068 of shapes]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=130323 and sizes]].

* ''TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD'' in the adventure ''Energy Curve''. The Klaxun are mobile plants with human level intelligence.
* [=SPI=]'s ''Universe'' science fiction RPG. In the list of encounters in the adventure guide, alien #28 is a balloon-like LivingGasbag with 6 two-foot long tentacles hanging from it. It maintains buoyancy by producing lighter-than-air gasses inside its body out of air and sunlight, and propels itself by squirting gasses out its underside.

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* The Elowan from the ''VideoGame/{{Starflight}}'' games.
* The Supox in ''VideoGame/StarControlII''. When the protagonist protests that human scientists (and science-fiction authors) have proven that intelligent plant life is a scientific impossibility, the Supox spokesman replies, "Yes. This has been confirmed by our people as well. Strange, is it not? Many of our people regard this inconsistency as proof of our divine origin." Luckily, they aren't [[ScaryDogmaticAliens jerks about it]].
** From the same game come the Mycon, a race of fungoid aliens created by the {{Precursors}} as biological terraforming devices. However, over the millennia they have gone rogue, developed a religion centered around the worship of "Juffo-Wup" and basically do the opposite of their original mission (they transform verdant worlds into ones they have been adapted to live in, i.e. barren hellscapes). [[note]]This info isn't explicitly stated within ''[=SC2=]'', but has been stated by [[WordOfGod the original creators]], Fred and Paul, in an IRC chat.[[/note]]
** The third game adds the Lk, a mushroom-like race that evolved from fungi in a Precursor technology cache. They are jerks about it, seeing themselves as the heirs to the Precursors.
* Not actually an alien, (well, [[HalfHumanHybrid usually]],)but in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' expansion pack Seasons, your sims can be turned into "[=PlantSims=]" by using too much insecticide.
* The Martians in ''VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams'' are revealed to be derived from plants.
* The VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}: Part PlantAliens, part social insects, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter all cute]]. Not quite "alien" though: The setting of the game is heavily implied to be Earth AfterTheEnd. There's also the walking, delicious fungus Puffstool with mutagenic spores.
* The Eaggra from the 1996 RTS ''VideoGame/WarWind'' are a numerous plant species that was used for slave labour by the reptilian Tha Roon before [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters the inevitable uprising]].

* The Xenofungus from ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' is the base for the Planet-wide HiveMind.

* The [[LittleGreenMen Martians]] from ''VideoGame/UFOAfterlight'' are actually plant-like humanoid aliens. You kill them with [[RuleOfCool Chainsaw Launchers]] and [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas]].
* The wildlife on Mars in ''VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams'' is often moving plants (die, roaming cacti, die!). This includes the sentient inhabitants.
* In ''VideoGame/WakingMars'', the Zoa, while not technically plants, are fairly similar to plants, considering they are stationary.
* Mobile plant- and fungus-based creatures exist in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe. Notable ones are bogbeasts (shambling swamp thing-type creatures), lashers (flower-like plants with small roots for lef and tentacle-like vines) and fungal giants (giant creatures made ouf of fungi). Spore bats may be fungus-based, too, but it's not really clear.
** Also the Sporelings, a group of fungus-based humanoids in VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft that are friendly to players and sell some unique items and recipes (including a pet sporebat) for those who build reputation with them.
* [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Five different species]] of aggressive lunar plants pose obstacles to your explorations in ''Voyage: Inspired By Jules Verne''. Their fruit is crucial to completion of the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' has several plant parts that can be used for creating creatures.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has the Whittles from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''.
* The peaceful merchants called Muscipulans from ''VideoGame/{{Otherspace}}'' are man-sized Venus fly traps with dozens of wriggling tentacles for locomotion.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Aleste}}'' and ''Aleste 2'', heroine Ellinor is battling a horde of super-intelligent plants trying to take over the world.

* ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' brings us Argim. Technically he was an iskai (standard alien species in the game), untill one of his experiments with immortality caused the psychic organ connected to his brain to somehow fuse with the plants that make up his home, effectively turning him into a living dungeon.
* ''VideoGame/TheSpaceBar'' gives us the Vedj, mobile plants with normal human-level intelligence. This gets creepy when as a puzzle solution you have to [[spoiler:eat the fruits of one of the aliens as an antidote. As in, ''her children''. Squick.]]
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' introduces the sylvari, humanoid plants that are born from the Pale Tree fully grown. Prior to birth they experience visions of the real world in the Dream, which is derived from the sylvari's collected knowledge and emotions. [[spoiler:We later learn they originated from the elder dragon Mordremoth and were raised into being good by Ronin and Ventari, a human and centaur who were sick of the war between their factions.]]

* All of the plants in ''VideoGame/{{Germination}}''

* Quercus from ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' is a tree being from the planet [[StealthPun Fagalia]]. He ''really'' dislikes florists.
-->"How would you like it if someone cut off your reproductive organs and arranged them in a vase for people to admire and smell?"

* ''WebOrigina/OrionsArm'' has several examples of [[UpliftedAnimal "provolved"]] plants.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' featured the plant-like Phylosians.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' featured an invasion by broccoli-shaped aliens. With their parents captured, the children of Townsville resorted to eating the intruders, at the [=PPGs=] behest. (Obviously, the {{Aesop}} to be learned here was to eat your vegetables... but hypnosis by eating vegetables was [[BrokenAesop what brought up this situation in the first place]].)
** Relish Rampage, a tie-in game, had them defeating alien pickles.

* For some reason, ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' seems to run into a lot of hostile, talking fruits and vegetables. Not all of them are space aliens, but some are.
* While not "aliens" per se, the [[OurElvesAreBetter Wuts]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' are increasingly revealed to be plantlike in more than just their green and vaguely leafy-looking appearance. In one episode, we see a yellowish and aged-looking Wut step into a pool of water...and in the time it takes to pan to the water and back to his face, he becomes recognizable again as one of the main characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'', "From the Planet Citrus" sees the pack getting jailed for trying to offer flowers, chocolate (made from cocoa seeds), and a painting of applesauce to some orange (shape, not just color) aliens [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin from the planet Citrus]]. Moral of the day: Always do your research!

* Atom and Swamp Thing foe, occasional ally of ComicBook/PoisonIvy, and [[HeelFaceTurn onetime]] [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians New Guardian]] Jason [[MeaningfulName Wood]]rue, a.k.a. the Floronic Man, was a humanoid who came from an interdimensional planet populated by a race of dryads, and gained [[WhenTreesAtack a tree-like form]]. His early pre-Crisis Atom stories have him using Earth as a base from which he would try to conquer his homeworld. His alien origin is dropped in the ComicBook/New52, where Jason is now an [[PlantPerson American-born human given a tree-like form]], and is known as the Seeder.