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Sunflower is a playable plant character in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans. Sunflower's specialty is keeping her teammates alive with potent abilities such as the Heal Beam or dropping down supportive Heal Flowers. But she can also hold her own in a fight if she needs to with solar lasers and her devastating Gleam Glare.

Primary Weapon
"Rapid-fire shots of solar energy."

- In-game description

Sunflower's primary weapon is the Sun Pulse, a rapid-fire sun laser attack with projectiles that deals 8 damage on contact.


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Fire Flower is a Fire variant of the Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans.

Primary Weapon
"Quick shots of arcing fireballs."

- In-game description

Fire Flower's primary weapon is the Flare Fling, a lobbed-shot weapon that shoots fireballs at an average rate, dealing 14 damage on contact. This weapon applies the fire status.


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Power Flower is a Electric variant of the Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans.

Primary Weapon
"Rapid-fire shots of electrical energy."

- In-game description

Power Flower's primary weapon is the Power Pulse, a 3-burst weapon with projectiles that deal 8 damage on contact, also dealing 6 arc damage to nearby enemies. 12 consecutive hits on an enemy will stun them for 0.5 seconds.


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Vampire Flower is a Vampiric variant of the Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans.

Primary Weapon
"Rapid-fire shots of red, vampiric energy."

- In-game description

Vampire Flower's primary weapon is the Life Leech, a fully automatic weapon with projectiles that deals 7 damage on contact. Each shot landed on an enemy heals you for 3 HP.


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Stuffy Flower is a variant of the Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans.

Primary Weapon
"Fully automatic shots of long-ranged sunshine and rainbows."

- In-game description

Stuffy Flower's primary weapon is the Rainbow Sunburst, a fully automatic weapon with projectiles that deal 18 damage on contact. When you vanquish an enemy, you spawn multiple sundrops around the defeated enemy that can heal plant allies, including yourself.


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Serpentine Sunflower is a Toxic variant of the Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Game of Groans.

Primary Weapon
"Snake vemon shot. Shooting allies heals them, while shooting enemies poisons them."

- In-game description

Serpentine Sunflower's primary weapon is the Poison Pulse, a semi-automatic chargeable weapon that fires a ball of poison. It deals 22 damage to enemies on contact, and also applies the toxic toxic status to them. However, if you shoot at a plant instead, they will be healed for 15 health.

Heal Flower
"Spawn a helpful Heal Flower to heal up nearby Plants."

- In-game description

When activated, Sunflower spawns a Heal Flower on the tile in front of her. Heal Flowers act mostly identical to their potted plant counterparts, creating a burst of 3 sundrops periodically that heal plants for 6 health each. Only 3 sundrops can exist at a given time. Heal Flower lasts for 30 seconds, and takes 35 seconds to recharge.

Sunburn
"Absorb a huge amount of sun, then unleash a wave of scorching solar energy."

- In-game description

When activated, Sunflower faces her head towards the sky and absorbs a lot of sunlight for 0.8 seconds, afterward unleashing a powerful wave of solar energy in a cone shape (about an 80 degree angle).This wave last for 2 seconds and rapidly damages enemies that touch it for 4 damage. This can deal a maximum of approximately 104 damage if enemies stay in it for the ability's entire duration. Sunflower moves 20% slower while using this ability, and also turns slower. It takes 16 seconds to recharge.

Heal Beam
"Latch a healing beam onto a plant friend."

- In-game description

When activated, Sunflower connects her Heal Beam to the closest nearby Plant within the Heal Beam's range. While connected, it heals allies for 3 health at a constant rate. Heal Beam has no cooldown and can be cancelled without any delay.

Strategies
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With
Sunflower is the prime healer of the Plant team. While her damage and health may not shine, she can heal other allies and keep them in the fight, allowing them to dish out the major damage while Sunflower supports. Sunflower can even revive allies faster, so if you see a vanquished ally, stop by them and quickly revive them.

Sunflower's Heal Beam is her most efficient way of healing. Though it only heals one ally, it heals them fast and rapidly, so they can get back into the fight. It can also go through walls, where most allies tend to retreat when damaged, making healing even easier. The only downside is that the Heal Beam will stop healing if allies get too far away from the Sunflower.

The Heal Beam is Sunflower's easiest way to damage enemies. It is your main offensive ability as a Sunflower, so try to use it when you're having a bit of trouble in a fight, or if you have multiple enemies approaching you quickly. Just keep in mind that there is a brief delay before it activates, and you move slower and cannot use other abilities, which can make you a target.

The Heal Flower is a great tool for the Sunflower, allowing her to place her own personal Plant Pot to heal allies, even when the Sunflower is not around to heal allies herself. It also does great mid-combat, keeping the Sunflower alive. Keep in mind that the pot has a limited lifetime, and can easily be defeated by enemies.

Against
Sunflower herself is not a big threat, at least in terms of damage. She usually won't be able to hold her own in a fight, as many enemies have strong abilities and attacks to take her out. However, Sunflower shines when near allies, as she can waste your efforts of damage with her healing. So in a group of plants, try to target the Sunflower first.

Sunflower's Heal Beam is her main way of healing, and she does it fast, which is all the more reason to target Sunflowers in battles. There is not much else to say about the Heal Beam other than that, but it will make the healed plant much harder to beat.

Sunburn is a very dangerous ability, but you need to consider that it also makes the Sunflower more vulnerable. If you are able to get out of it's range, you can easily attack the Sunflower. Also keep in mind that the Sunflower is also slowed down while using this ability, so you may be able to escape the Sunburn's range with this in mind. }}

Trivia

 * Sunbeam was originally going to return, but was scrapped due to being too similar to the Pea Gatling ability.
 * Sunny Side Up was originally going to return, but was scrapped because the creator personally thought the ability was annoying in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville.
 * Serpentine Sunflower had many previous concepts. The first one was that she had a legendary meter where she was able to turn zombies she vanquished into unreviveable stone shields with 100 HP, and one tile in size once the meter was full. The second idea was that she had a chargeable toxic attack. Enemies vanquished by a max-charge attack would turn to stone shields.
 * The ability to turn zombies to stone was a reference to the mythological creature named Medusa.
 * She also used to have a secondary weapon.