Editing Creeping Chrysanthemum

|image       = Pikmin Garden Creeping Chrysanthemum render.png

|size       = 192px

|name       = Taraxacum rovinia

|family     = Chrysanthemum

|areas       = [[Awakening Wood]], [[Wistful Wild]], [[Blossoming Arcadia]] ([[Story Mode]] and [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]])

|underground = [[Snagret Hole]], [[Cavern of Chaos]], [[Hole of Heroes]]

|dandori_c  = [[Trial of the Sage Leaf]]

|challenge  = [[Rumbling Grotto]], [[Breeding Ground]]

|attacks     = Eat Pikmin

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The '''Creeping Chrysanthemum''' ({{j|びっくり菊|Bikkuri Kiku|Surprising Chrysanthemum}}) is an [[enemy]] in {{p2}} and {{p4}}. When dormant, Creeping Chrysanthemums greatly resemble large flowers used for level scenery. When [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] or the leaders get close, they will spring out of the ground, revealing their root-legs and their bulbous bodies.

In ''Pikmin 2'', they resemble [[Margaret]]s when dormant, but they can be told apart from the normal flowers, as they have one fewer flower, no leaves on their "stems", slightly visible patterns on their stem, and their large flowers have the Chrysanthemum's eyes visible. They have large red mouths that emerge from their tallest flowers. They move moderately slowly, and will return to their original spots if left alone for a while. They replant themselves by standing above the spot where they originally came and sucking themselves into the ground until only the "flowers" remain. These enemies cannot be [[ultra-bitter spray|petrified]] while they are in the ground.

The Chrysanthemums were heavily redesigned in ''Pikmin 4''. They now have white flowers resembling [[Vegetation#Fleabane|Fleabane]], their mouths are at the top of their bodies instead of on stalks, they have large tongues which they launch to attack and their legs now resemble those of frogs. When they launch their tongues and miss, they will take a while to retrieve them.

The Creeping Chrysanthemum is also a collectible trophy in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.

{{enemy stats

|carriers2 = 20 |carriers4 = 20

|value2 = 7    |value4 = 12<ref group="note">This enemy cannot be delivered to the [[S.S. Beagle]] outside the [[Trial of the Sage Leaf]]. This information is obtained from the [[Piklopedia (Pikmin 4)|Piklopedia]].</ref>

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{{Notes|olimar=y|louie=y}}

 

=== Dalmo's notes ===

{{transcript|Let's have a Creeping Chrysanthemum show, why don't we? We'll gather hand-raised Creeping Chrysanthemums and have a contest based on size, flower color - things like that. They're half animal, so maybe a behavior category too? Or course, how would the judges choose a winnner? Each specimen is so beautiful in its own way...|block=y}}

 

{{transcript|Like Pikmin, the Creeping Chrysanthemum is a member of a group of creatures with ambulatory root structures.

 

 

 

Generally speaking, the role of plants within an ecosystem is as a producer species, and thus plants are generally found at the bottom of the food pyramid. However, on this strange planet, the line between producer plants and consumer plants is blurred.|block=y}}

 

 

{{transcript|If you're not specifically looking for a Creeping Chrysanthemum, you may miss it until you're right on top of it and it pops out of the ground. Keep your Pikmin away from the predator's mouth and toss them at its body. If the creature falls over, swarm it before it can right itself.|block=y}}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its large mouth will pick up the Pikmin to eat them, but if it fails to capture any, it will slam its head into its body and fall to the ground, struggling to get back up. This presents an opportunity for the player to attack the Chrysanthemum. Its weak point is its body, which can be hit at all times. It is generally weak against medium-sized groups of Pikmin. The best way to defeat it is to simply [[swarm]] it, being careful not to let it eat any Pikmin. Another way is to daze it with [[Purple Pikmin]] then swarm to kill it. Yet another way is to quickly dart forward and attack, and when it tries to eat Pikmin, retreat. It will hit itself, knocking itself down. Use Purple Pikmin to quickly kill it when it is struggling to regain balance. Another good method of defeating it is to have one leader dismissed without any Pikmin and the other leader close by with Pikmin. Then, have the leader without any Pikmin wake up the creature and switch leaders as soon as it wakes up and start [[swarm]]ing or [[throw]]ing Pikmin at the beast until it's dead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

==References==

{{p2enemies}}

[[Category:Pikmin-eating enemies]]

[[Category:Trial of the Sage Leaf]]