Verbena Γ hybrida
An ornamental annual forb that is neither native nor invasive in the current regions, so it fights on its plain base stats as a soft, middling utility card.
Garden verbena is an annual forb, a low bedding Annual forb grown as an ornamental hybrid. In the current regions it is neither native nor invasive anywhere, so it plays on the neutral base line β it draws neither the native HP cushion nor the invasive attack edge, and simply fights on its own stats. Treat it as a mid-pack utility card.
Superhero unlocks at Lv 1 and costs 2 Sun for 34 damage, and its blow carries onto the opposing bench as a splash. The free once-per-battle ability Ecesis (Lv 25) deals no damage: Establishes fast: heal 35% and gain speed. β a self-heal plus a lasting speed gain that establishes it fast. The advanced attack Somnolent Smell (Lv 40, 6 Sun) lands 24 and adds a narcotic status that sickens the foe and makes it sleep through a turn. None of its moves carry the initiative rider.
It keeps two always-on traits at different levels. Photoblastic arrives at Lv 10: in a sunny arena it heals about 2% of its maximum HP every checkup β a small, steady trickle that only works in sun, and it fires every checkup rather than on the 60% roll that governs the big regen traits. Reseed stacks on at Lv 68 β on a knockout it leaves one fresh Seedling token on your bench, once per match; the parent still dies and concedes its prize.
No trait keywords, and an annual forb is not a climber, so no Moss Pole. Since it holds no role bonus, gear it generically for survivability or tempo. See field gear.
At Lv 40 it reads 103 HP and 22 ATK behind only 2 DEF β very soft armor, so hits land nearly in full. Because it is neither native nor invasive here, none of that is buffed: no +15% cushion, no introduced-range attack step. Its opening tempo 35 and sustained tempo 34 sit close together, so it neither leads the opening sharply nor cruises well β a middling mover on both turns. Every active can still hold an overshield fed by your benched natives, this card included, and its Ecesis speed buff is its main way to seize tempo mid-fight. Retreat costs 16 Sun. See stats.
As a soft weed its biomass swells β HP to 190 β but its DEF barely moves off the floor at 3, and ATK reaches 40. Retreat climbs to 33 Sun and its tempo pips fall to about a percent of cap, erasing what little opening edge it had. It ends as a bigger but still lightly armored card.
An annual forb is Ruderal. It hits Specialists (succulents, conifers, ferns, epiphytes) for x1.5 and shrugs them to x0.667, but loses to Competitors (perennial herbs, vines, shrubs, broadleaf trees) at x1.5 against its thin DEF.
It is a modest card β a collection piece for the family tree more than a battle staple. Its splash starter and the sleep on Somnolent Smell give it some board control, and Ecesis lets it heal and outpace a slower opponent, but with soft DEF and no role bonus it needs bench backup to matter. It is not edible, so any fertilizer you feed it banks x1.25 XP toward leveling rather than coins. On the neutral line it leans on speed early and only tips toward raw power around Lv 29.
Leveling trades speed for power. A plantβs 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 β native adds a HP cushion, invasive an attack edge, neutral neither β with the card at its crossover and fully grown at LvΒ 100.