Plants

moose herbs, thorny bushes, sunflowers, and more. Most of them can be harvested to collect itself or its seeds. Each biome has its own types of plants.

Gandalf

It is possible to find Gandalf the Grey in the Hallow. If you bring the wizard NPC to the Hallow, then you can infuse him with bacon from the unicorns, which transforms him. See also Gandalf the White

Grass

Grass enables many plants to grow on it, and covers most of the aboveground landscape. There are seven types of grass: Normal, Corrupt, Crimson, Mushroom, Jungle, Hallowed and Ash grass.

Type		Soil type	Seeds	Location	Plants
	Grass Internal Tile ID: 2	Dirt		Surface of Forests, Floating Islands	Trees, Mushrooms, wild Grass, Dayblooms, Yellow Marigolds, Blue Berries
	Corrupt grass Internal Tile ID: 23	Dirt		Surface of The Corruption	Corrupt trees, Vile Mushrooms, wild Corrupt grass, Deathweed, Thorny bushes
	Corrupt Jungle grass Internal Tile ID: 661	Mud		Surface of The Corruption in Jungles	Corrupt trees, Vile Mushrooms, wild Corrupt grass, Deathweed, Thorny bushes
	Crimson grass Internal Tile ID: 199	Dirt		Surface of The Crimson	Crimson trees, Vicious Mushrooms, wild Crimson grass, Deathweed, Thorny bushes
	Crimson Jungle grass Internal Tile ID: 662	Mud		Surface of The Crimson in Jungles	Crimson trees, Vicious Mushrooms, wild Crimson grass, Deathweed, Thorny bushes
	Mushroom grass Internal Tile ID: 70	Mud		Glowing Mushroom biome	Glowing Mushrooms, Giant Glowing Mushrooms
	Jungle grass Internal Tile ID: 60	Mud		Jungle, Underground Jungle	Jungle trees, wild Jungle grass, Moonglow Underground Jungle: Thorny bushes, Jungle Spores, Jungle Roses, Moonglows, Nature's Gifts
	Hallowed grass Internal Tile ID: 109	Dirt		Surface of The Hallow	Hallowed trees, Mushrooms, wild Hallowed grass, Dayblooms
	Ash grass Internal Tile ID: 633	Ash		The edges of the Underworld	Ash Trees, wild Ash grass, Fireblossoms

Mowed grass

Type		Soil type	Source
	Mowed grass Internal Tile ID: 477	Dirt	Lawn Mower used on grass
	Mowed Hallowed grass Internal Tile ID: 492	Dirt	Lawn Mower used on Hallowed grass

Image	Grows On	Notes
	Grass	May drop Grasshoppers, Worms or their gold variants.
	Corrupt Grass	Drops nothing. Contributes to Corruption biome tile count.
	Crimson Grass	Drops nothing. Does not contribute to Crimson biome tile count.
	Hallowed Grass	Drops nothing. Contributes to Hallowed biome tile count.
	Jungle Grass	May drop Grubby, Sluggy, Buggy or Jungle Grass Seeds. Contributes to Jungle biome tile count.
	Ash Grass	May drop Ash Grass Seeds.

Herbs

You know, cumin, coriander, basil, cilantro. You put them in food and it makes it taste interesting. If you combine them, you get very complex and delicious flavors. Oh, there is also like garlic powder and stuff...

Whomping Willow

Bang and you're dead.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are plants which grow randomly on many grasses and other blocks in Terraria. There are currently 6 types of mushrooms:

Name	Location	Notes
Mushroom Internal Item ID: 5	Surface/Space, on regular Grass.	Consumable. Used in recipes for healing items.
Glowing Mushroom Internal Item ID: 183	Any layer, on Mushroom Grass.	Doesn't always yield mushrooms and may yield Mushroom Grass Seeds when harvested. Used to craft Shroomite Bars and furniture.
Vile Mushroom Internal Item ID: 60	Any layer, on Corrupt Grass.	Can be used at a Placed Bottle to make Vile Powder.
Vicious Mushroom Internal Item ID: 2887	Any layer, on Crimson Grass.	Can be used at a Placed Bottle to make Vicious Powder.
Green Mushroom Internal Item ID: 1108	Underground and Cavern	Used at the Dye Vat to make Green Dye. Cannot be broken by weapon swings, unlike other mushrooms.
Teal Mushroom Internal Item ID: 1107	Underground and Cavern	Used at the Dye Vat to make Teal Dye. Cannot be broken by weapon swings, unlike other mushrooms.

Regular Mushrooms can be turned into Vile Mushrooms and vice versa using Purification Powder, Unholy Water, or Holy water respectively.

Vines

Contrary to popular belief, vines do not exist.

Cacti

Cactus seen in a Desert

Main article: Cactus

Cacti can be found in the Desert biome on sand. They can be chopped down, like trees, to receive Cactus. However, unlike trees, you can mine the sand from beneath them, which will destroy the cactus.

• As of patch 1.1, they no longer deal damage to players who touch them.
• Prior to 1.0.6, cacti destroyed blocks as they grew. Now, if a block is in the way of its growth, it will just stop growing.

Thorny bushes

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A thorny bush in the Corruption

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A thorny bush in the Underground Jungle

Thorny bushes are plants that grow naturally in the Corruption and the Underground Jungle, like grass. Unlike grass though, Thorny Bushes will damage the player on contact. Currently, there are two types of thorny bushes: red bushes that grow in the Underground Jungle which deal 25 damage and purple bushes that grow in the Corruption that deal 10 damage. Thorny Bushes grow in all directions (not just upwards), and may spread. All NPCs and enemies are immune to them. They cannot be obtained as an item. The Corruption variant of Thorny Bushes spreads corruption, the Jungle variant, however, does not spread jungle grass. Thorny bushes cannot grow over or otherwise affect vines. Therefore, vines can prevent the propagation of Corruption across large gaps that would otherwise require careful maintenance.

• As of patch 1.0.6, thorny bushes are now destroyed on contact with the player.

Sunflowers

Main article: Sunflower

Sunflowers are found on grass on the surface. They are not only there for decoration, but they also stop corruption from spreading. You can pick them up by destroying the grass on the block under them with a pickaxe to receive a Sunflower. As of 1.1, activating hardmode will cause corruption to spread past sunflowers on its path, breaking them when the corruption touches the ground that it sits on.

See Also

• Guide:Gardening

History

• 1.0.5:
  • Rate of plant growth is slowed.
  • Vines that refused to grow longer than 1 tile in length while underwater will now grow correctly.

• 1.0.4: Jungle plants now grow underwater.