---
title: "Moonflower"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.4ej8vssJVu0BkusM" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/plant
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/8
statblock: inline
name: "Moonflower"
level: 8
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 2"
name: "Moonflower"
level: "Creature 8"
rare_03: [[Uncommon]]
alignment: ""
size: "huge"
trait_01: [[plant]]
modifier: 16
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+16; Darkvision"
languages: "telepathy 1 mile (other moonflowers only)"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Athletics: +19, Stealth: +14"
abilityMods: [7, 0, 4, -2, 4, 3]
speed: 20 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 2_"
ac: 24
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "24; __Fort__ +18, __Ref__ +10, __Will__ +16"
hp: 120
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "120, fast healing 10; __Immunities__  electricity; __Weaknesses__ fire 10; __Resistances__ physical 10 (except slashing)"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Fast Healing|Fast Healing 10]]"
    desc: "  A monster with this ability regains the given number of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Bite"
    desc: "+20 (reach 15 feet)\n__Damage__  2d10 + 10 piercing plus grab"

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Root"
    desc: "+20 (agile, reach 15 feet)\n__Damage__  2d8 + 10 bludgeoning"

  - name: "Light Pulse"
    desc: "`pf2:2` (light,primal,visual) 50 feet\n\nThe moonflower releases a pulse of bright light. Each non-moonflower creature in the emanation must attempt a DC 23 Fortitude check save.\n\nThe moonflower can't use Light Pulse again for 1d4 rounds.\n* * *\n\n**Success** The creature is unaffected.\n\n**Failure** The creature is [[Conditions/Dazzled|Dazzled]] for 1d4 rounds.\n\n**Critical Failure** The creature is [[Conditions/Blinded|Blinded]] for 1d4 rounds."

  - name: "Pod Prison"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Trigger** The moonflower has swallowed a creature\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The swallowed creature is wrapped in a tight cocoon and extruded from the moonflower's body into an adjacent square. The creature continues to be Swallowed Whole. It can't use Acrobatics to [[Actions/Escape|Escape]] a pod, but other creatures can attempt to Rupture the pod. The cocooned creature takes half damage from any damage dealt to the cocoon. Once the cocoon is Ruptured, it deflates and decays."

  - name: "Pod Spawn"
    desc: "  Should a Small or larger creature die within a pod prison, the pod transforms into an adult moonflower with full Hit Points after 1d4 hours of growth.\n\nThe newly formed moonflower has its own consciousness, but some aspect of its trunk or blossoms resembles the creature that died within. The dead creature's equipment remains inside the new moonflower and can be retrieved if the moonflower is slain."

  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Swallow Whole|Swallow Whole]]"
    desc: "`pf2:1` (attack) Large, 2d10+10 bludgeoning and 2d6 acid, Rupture 21\n* * *\n\nThe monster attempts to swallow a creature of the listed size or smaller that it has grabbed or restrained in its jaws or mouth. If a swallowed creature is of the maximum size listed, the monster can't use Swallow Whole again. If the creature is smaller than the maximum, the monster can usually swallow more creatures; the GM determines the maximum. The monster attempts an Athletics check check opposed by the grabbed creature's Reflex DC. If it succeeds, it swallows the creature. The monster's mouth or jaws no longer grab a creature it has swallowed, so the monster is free to use them to Strike or Grab once again. The monster can't attack creatures it has swallowed.\n\nA swallowed creature is [[Conditions/Grabbed|Grabbed]], is [[Conditions/Slowed|Slowed 1]], and has to hold its breath or start suffocating. The swallowed creature takes the listed amount of damage when first swallowed and at the end of each of its turns while it's swallowed. If the victim [[Actions/Escape|Escapes]] this ability's grabbed condition, it exits through the monster's mouth. This frees any other creature grabbed in the monster's mouth or jaws. A swallowed creature can attack the monster that has swallowed it, but only with unarmed attacks or with weapons of light Bulk or less. The swallowing creature is [[Conditions/Off-Guard|Off-Guard]] against the attack. If the monster takes piercing or slashing damage equaling or exceeding the listed Rupture value from a single attack or spell, the swallowed creature cuts itself free. A creature that gets free by either Escaping or cutting itself free can immediately breathe and exits the swallowing monster's space.\n\nIf the monster dies, a swallowed creature can be freed by creatures adjacent to the corpse if they spend a combined total of 3 actions cutting the monster open with a weapon or unarmed attack that deals piercing or slashing damage."

  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Grab|Grab]]"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  **Requirements** The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature [[Conditions/Grabbed|Grabbed]] or [[Conditions/Restrained|Restrained]]\n* * *\n\n**Effect** If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to [[/act grapple]] the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty.\n\nThe monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Moonflower
creatures:
  - 1: Moonflower
```



These enormous plants have thick, knotted trunks festooned with fanged blossoms. A gaping mouth sits at the top of the trunk, capable of swallowing most creatures smaller than the moonflower whole. Moonflowers can move slowly on their powerful roots or use them to attack, but usually they dig them deeply into the surrounding ground and remain stationary to await prey.

Though moonflowers can't speak in the conventional sense, they communicate telepathically with other moonflowers. Explorers who encounter a single moonflower can thus be assured that any other moonflowers in the vicinity will be prepared for them. Those who manage to intercept a moonflower's telepathic communications are assaulted by visions of dreadful, primeval jungles ruled over by titanic plant life. Whether this is some vision of the past or a dream of the future shared by all moonflowers is unknown.

Moonflowers are alien life-forms from a long-dead planet, but their proliferation throughout the galaxy has been ensured through the machinations of the Dominion of the Black, a sinister, alien organization from the dark places between the stars.
