Healing with actual plants is covered by the subtrope Healing Herb, but unlike other elemental healings such as Heal It with Water or Heal It With Fire, just slapping random plants on an injury isn't likely to heal (wounds), and more likely to just do nothing.
But, for some reason, slapping random plant / Nature Equals Plants magic on injuries can induce healing. And like other plant-based magic, magical Druids can likely do this.
A reason for this trope to exist beyond magic just taking Healing Herb and removing the physical herb might be due to Biomanipulation, and how, scientifically, all lifeforms are made up of cells, so there's possibly not too big a difference between plants and animals, and healing one maybe can heal the other.
This trope is only for "Nature" or other plant-adjacent magic whose concepts don't, by name, move into the fauna as well. So this trope doesn't encompass "Life" magic, for instance.
Since flowers are a type of plant, and petals are a part of flowers, Petal Power, the trope for visuals of flower petals as a part of attacks or "moves", may occur in some of these examples.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The ohmu, essentially giant bugs the size of freight trains, are seen as representatives and guardians of nature. In the climax of the film, Nausicaa is trying to stop a herd of stampeding ohmu by revealing to them that an infant ohmu that Tolmekia had abducted was alive and safe. But the ohmu, blind with rage, collide with her and send her flying. She is seen lying on the ground, apparently dead. But the rage of the ohmu subsides, and they turn their attention to Nausicaa, and golden tendrils extend from their mandibles, radiating with energy. They repair Nausicaa's injuries, and she revives.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons: Druids are spell casters who derive their power from a connection to nature, and can cast healing spells even from Original Dungeons & Dragons, but in most editions, clerics are able to cast more healing spells per day per level. The Goodberry spell exemplifies the healing with nature aspect of druids, since it creates a handful of magical berries that heal the wounds of anyone who eats them.
- Pathfinder 2nd edition: The druid class that wields the "power of nature" and can "heal (your allies') wounds".
Video Games
- The Castlevania franchise:
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon: The Plant element Mandragora component magics, can heal the user.
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: The Alura Une soul summons a Plant Person for Intimate Healing on Soma.
- Dungeon Siege: There's a Nature Magic spell called Healing Hands.
- Epic Battle Fantasy 5: "The embodiment of nature's spirit", Earth's Whisper, when upgraded, "Randomly casts Refresh between turns.", where Refresh is "Advanced healing magic".
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: The Elementalist's Earth Heal spell calls down magical leaves to heal a single target. It's earth-elemental instead of the usual holy, so it can potentially even heal undead. Elementalists retain the ability in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, which now shows magic being drawn from the earth in the form of green light to heal the target.
- Kingdom Hearts: Implied by how the Cure line of spells features leaves, vines, and flowers that circle the characters and rain down healing magic.
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: The Geodancer's Essence of Natural Healing is a magic dance that causes plants to grow while healing the party. In general, this is a theme of the Geodancer job, which is a nature-themed support class.
- Miitopia: The Flower Class acts as a second healing class, alongside the Cleric. While it has a few offensive attacks, it has plenty of moves used for healing, such as Gentle and Sweet Fragrance, which use the aroma of flowers to heal an ally, or Flower Bed and Mega Flower Bed, which heal the party by filling them with nature's energy.
- Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor: Zarude's Secret Art, "Jungle Healing", which involves being "one with the jungle", and since jungles are sometimes the idea of primal nature, the move seems to heal by using a non-specific "nature" power.
The user becomes one with the jungle, restoring HP and healing any status conditions of itself and its ally Pokémon in battle.
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens: The magical Refresh Dance which heals Shantae and does Revive Kills Zombie on any such enemies, all while turning her into a plant-themed mermaid.
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole: Picking the Plantmancer class gives the New Kid some support-focused Green Thumb abilities, including "Purifying Petals", which heals allies in range and removes status effects, and the Limit Break "Nature's Gift", which summons Mother Nature herself to heal and revive all allies.
- Titan Quest: Nature Mastery is about forests, like briars, dryads, oaks, and wolves, and their Healing Hands skill is Regrowth, whose icon is a leaf:
A wave of healing energy rapidly restores lost life to the target ally.
- World of Warcraft: Druids use the "powers of nature", and the Restoration type are adept in channeling the powers of nature into soothing healing powers to heal allies.
Visual Novels
- Soul of Sovereignty: Loïc is able to heal Ysme's wound by using flower magic - more specifically, he uses a yellow rose to heal Ysme's broken ankle. He tells Ysme that this is how he has been able to keep busy in Tarn for a few months despite being no healer, implying that he has been making a living healing others with flower magic.
Western Animation
- Harley Quinn (2019): During the final 2 episodes of season 1, Ivy is seemingly killed by the Joker, after he fatally wounds her. Harley's crew buries her only for her to be resurrected just in time for the final battle. Ivy herself states that nature is what healed her.
- My Little Pony 'n Friends: In the opening arc "The End of Flutter Valley", the ponies and Megan meet the furbobs, a race of creatures that are cousins to the bushwoolies and live in harmony with nature. In part 4, they use a musical ritual to call on the healing power of nature and fix Baby Cuddles' leg after she hurt herself in a fall.
