Pimpinella peregrina
Southern burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella peregrina) is a ruderal annual forb in Supplant — a native-only buffer whose game role is set out below.
This is a slender annual umbellifer of European and West Asian meadows. In battle it is a Annual forb — a Ruderal on the succession chart. It is native to Africa, East Asia and Europe and invasive nowhere, so it only ever plays the native buffer role — there is no attacker version of this card.
Its starter attack, Insect Alliance, is available from Lv 1 for 2 Sun and deals about 31 damage. The free once-per-battle ability, Old-Field Takeover, unlocks at Lv 25: Overruns the whole field — the foe's bench withers and sickens. The advanced attack, Seed Grenade (Lv 40, 6 Sun), hits for about 31.
From Lv 10 it carries Duff Stuff, which raises its effective DEF by half the combined DEF of your still-standing benched ruderal plants (annual forbs, grasses, aquatics and bulbs), recomputed live so the bonus fades as those allies faint. At Lv 68 a second always-on trait stacks on: Ballistic Dispersal, which chips about 4% of the maximum HP off every enemy still standing when it is knocked out.
For field gear, a Calcium/Magnesium amendment adds flat DEF, which a soft-bodied plant like this feels most. Its growth habit is not recorded as a climber, so it is not Moss Pole–eligible.
Read at the snapshot level (Lv 40, where its whole kit is unlocked), it shows 103 HP and 24 ATK with 2 DEF. As a native it carries a 15% HP cushion and, while benched, projects an HP overshield bar onto your active. On defence, its DEF stays near the floor, so it relies on tempo and offence rather than soaking hits. Its opening tempo (turn 1) is 37 and its sustained tempo (turn 2 onward) 34 — making it steady in both the opening and the sustained phases of a fight. Retreating it costs 16 Sun. See Stats and Native Strength for the full picture.
By Lv 100 its HP swells toward 190, but its DEF barely leaves its band at 3 — a soft-category plant stays soft no matter how much biomass it puts on. Attack reaches 43, retreat rises to 33 Sun, and its inverted tempo has sunk to a sliver, so the speed it relied on young is spent. It grows bulkier but never becomes a wall.
On the succession chart a Annual forb is a Ruderal. Ruderal plants hit Specialist categories hard (×1.5) and are resisted by Competitor categories (×0.667); against everything else the matchup is neutral. Weird categories are off the wheel entirely, so it trades neutrally with those.
A native-only weedy annual that plays support: Duff Stuff turns benched ruderals into real DEF, and Ballistic Dispersal punishes the enemy team when it dies. Soft and low-damage; a bench piece that banks XP. It has no resolved edible part, so fertilising it banks ×1.25 XP rather than coins — useful for levelling.
It fights as a fast skirmisher until about Lv 26, after which its growing bulk and attack take over from its early speed edge.
Leveling trades speed for power. A plant’s tempo (SPD + INI, the turn-order edge) fades as it grows, while its power (HP + ATK + DEF, net of the rising Sun cost to retreat) climbs. The crossover is the level where power overtakes tempo: below it the plant is a fast skirmisher, above it a heavyweight. Shown for each stance this plant can actually hold — native adds a HP cushion, invasive an attack edge, neutral neither — with the card at its crossover and fully grown at Lv 100.