Plants

 in Viridi are the entire point of the game. Your goal is to begin with nothing but a handful of seeds and end up with a pot full of beautiful, mature succulent plants. Additional seeds can be purchased from the Nursery (prices vary), your existing plants can always be moved to a new pot, and new environments can be added for maintaining multiple pots at a time.

Growing a plant for several weeks (real time) will bring it to maturity and unlock the corresponding achievement for doing so. This means that your plant has reached its full size after having began as a tiny seedling. Most mature plants can then be maintained for an additional few weeks until they produce one or more flowers, which also unlocks related achievements.

Some plants come in multiple color varieties, but not all, and the specific color appears to be chosen at random when the seedling is placed in one of your pots -- it is not something that can be chosen by the player.

Seeds / Seedlings
Plants which you have purchased or gotten as a weekly freebie -- but not yet used -- are stored in your Steam inventory as seeds. As a Steam item, they are tradeable but not marketable; this means that players can trade seeds among each other to obtain what they desire without paying real money, but these items cannot be sold on the Steam marketplace in exchange for money. This means that no matter how you obtain a seed, even if you bought it from the Nursery with real money, you will not be able to resell it.

When a plant is added to a pot, it is added not as a basic seed but instead as a seedling which has just begun sprouting into a plant. Though it isn't strictly realistic, this makes it easier to find and water the plant as it begins its life, which is important to both your success in growing plants and your enjoyment of the game. When players are shopping for additional seeds in the Nursery, they are shown visual representations of each plant as a seedling.

Plant Types
 *  = These particular plants do not flower. They can be grown to a mature state, but they do not produce any kind of flower and do not have the associated flowering achievement with them.