v0.31:Plant

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For the article on farming plants, see Farming. For the article on crops, see Crops.

A plant is a regrowing natural resource. In Dwarf Fortress, they can be separated into four categories, all of which have different properties and uses. In the context of the game, they also include fungi (such as plump helmets or fungiwood) and certain things not made of plant matter (such as staring eyeballs and wormy tendrils), all of which are functionally identical to plants.

Not the inhaling type.

Major types of plants

Crop

Main article: Crop

Crops can be planted from seeds and grown in farms. There are above-ground as well as subterranean crops, both of which need soil or muddied rock to grow.

Shrub

Main article: Shrub

Shrubs cannot be planted, and must be gathered from naturally-growing specimens.

Tree

Main article: Tree

Trees grow naturally in the environment and can be cut down to provide wood.

Grass

Main article: Grass

Grasses form the natural groundcover of soil and muddied rock, and are necessary to feed grazing animals.

V · T · E Plants
Crops and shrubs Surface Blade weed • Bloated tuber • Fisher berry • Hide root • Kobold bulb • Longland grass • Muck root • Prickle berry • Rat weed • Rope reed • Sliver barb • Sun berry • Valley herb • Whip vine • Wild strawberry Subterranean Cave wheat • Dimple cup • Pig tail • Plump helmet • Quarry bush • Sweet pod
Trees Surface Acacia • Alder • Ash • Birch • Cacao tree • Candlenut • Cedar • Chestnut • Feather tree • Glumprong • Highwood • Kapok • Larch • Mahogany • Mango tree • Mangrove • Maple • Oak • Palm • Pine • Rubber tree • Saguaro • Willow Subterranean Black-cap • Blood thorn • Fungiwood • Goblin-cap • Nether-cap • Spore tree • Tower-cap • Tunnel tube
Grasses Surface Meadow-grass • Hair grass • Bentgrass • Ryegrass • Fescue grass • Reedgrass • Knotgrass • Zoysia • Dog's tooth grass • Dallisgrass • Carpetgrass • Satintail • Grama • Dropseed grass • Needle grass • Baby toes succulent • Pebble plant • Blue sedge • Field sedge • Purple moor grass • Velvet grass • Meadowsweet • Rush • Marsh thistle • Common reed • Cattail • Sawgrass • Cottongrass • White mountain heather • Mountain avens • Cloudberry • Wormy tendril • Staring eyeball • Bubble bulb • Downy grass • Arrow bamboo • Golden bamboo • Hedge bamboo Subterranean Cave moss • Floor fungus