Bestiary · Creature type

Plants monsters

Plants in 5e are vegetable creatures and fungi that move and think: treants, shambling mounds, myconids and blights. Many are vulnerable to fire and hard to notice until they move, which makes them good ambushers and good guardians of old places.

12 monsters
Gourdricant
SmallPlantCR 1

Gourdricant

A talking watermelon with a carved, flickering jack-o'-lantern for a head, Gourdricants speak with a hollow, papery chuckle as they weave simple magics. They lurch on squat vine-legs, lash glowing…

NeutralForged 1 Nov 2026
Thallok Puppeteer
MediumPlantCR 3

Thallok Puppeteer

A Thallok Puppeteer looks like a bruise of blackened mycelium crowned with a tangle of pale, jointed tendrils that clutch with uncanny delicacy. It drags the corpses of fallen adventurers into its…

Neutral EvilForged 1 Nov 2026
Gorvenash
LargePlantCR 4

Gorvenash

Gorvenash is a hulking, sorrow-gnarled sentinel of wood and rot: a once-ancient guardian tree twisted by a funerary curse into a grim warden that binds itself to tombstones. It moves with the…

Neutral EvilForged 31 Oct 2026
Piptember
TinyPlantCR 1/8

Piptember

No taller than a boot and crowned with a smoking, candle-like stem, a Piptember looks innocent until it rolls. In a flash it tucks, tumbles through undergrowth and hurls itself into a cluster of…

Chaotic EvilForged 30 Oct 2026
Cinderling Gourd
SmallPlantCR 1/4

Cinderling Gourd

Cinderling Gourds look like grinning pumpkins no larger than a child's head, but their eyes glow with inner ember and their green vines hiss like tongues of flame. They skitter across hard-packed…

Chaotic EvilForged 30 Oct 2026
Ghrasket Rootmorne
LargePlantCR 3

Ghrasket Rootmorne

At first glance it is an ancient tree with knotted bark and sprawling limbs — until the bark peels back like a healed mouth and a face of warped wood howls. Ghrasket Rootmorne lurches with…

Neutral EvilForged 29 Oct 2026
Mycogramm
MediumPlantCR 1/2

Mycogramm

A sodden, lichen-slick growth sprouting a tangle of pale tendrils and ink-dark sporopods, the Mycogramm anchors itself to a fallen adventurer and turns bone and sinew into a living marionette. Its…

Neutral EvilForged 22 Oct 2026
Veskarul
HugePlantCR 10

Veskarul

Veskarul is a towering, slow-moving behemoth of charred bark and smoldering heartwood — a walking, sentient ember-forest that exhales blasts of searing coals. It moves with the deliberate weight of…

NeutralForged 21 Oct 2026
Kirisylth
MediumPlantCR 2

Kirisylth

Kirisylth looks at first like an overgrown ceremonial lily floating in a temple pond, but when prey draws near its glossy petals peel back to reveal a ring of serrated, toothed filaments and a…

UnalignedForged 14 Oct 2026
Tanglevine
SmallPlantCR 1/2

Tanglevine

A low, creeping plant with curious, dextrous tendrils, the Tanglevine delights in small, humiliating sabotage: it slithers along pathways and thresholds to knot the laces of hurried travelers. When…

UnalignedForged 14 Oct 2026
Tollroot Warden
HugePlantCR 1

Tollroot Warden

At first glance it is a squat, knotted orchard tree; up close it watches coin pouches with patient, vegetal hunger. The Tollroot Warden drops fat, lacquered fruits only where small bells or the…

NeutralForged 14 Oct 2026
Pricklewit
SmallPlantCR 1/4

Pricklewit

A Pricklewit is a foul-tempered, thistle-green sprite no larger than a household cat, all briar and bad temper. It darts from flowerbed to compost heap, leaving snagged hems and bleeding fingers in…

Neutral EvilForged 14 Oct 2026

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