Podlins

Ever since man was attacked by the dominion mother nature had a few choices, die and take all life with it or evolve and protect her children. Noticing your fellow survivor with you is still here, you can tell what she chose. After a while mother nature has seemed to have choose her pick on who to make sure her other children could last longer and that pick were native flora, and so, a variety plants like venus fly traps, cacti and many more grew to become more active as well as more smart by having a scent for pasific alien life and attacking with toxic gas or spitting seeds away from nearby creatures to have a chance to get away but that's not all, some grew the ability to burst vines that move just as well as the regular normal muscle if not faster. The reason some plants grew like this is because some alien life like the dominion carry germs toxic to them and plants that had the ability to make aliens like the dominion stay away from them lived longer to evolve traits like this. Some of the traits some plants grew were wind pipes that make noises in such frequency that most dominion hear it and hurt their ears or a certain rare type of podlin flower that makes the sound similar to a person whispering maniacally to himself scaring most people.

Most podlins look similar to their ancestors but with slight differences like  one related to a cactus has thinner spikes and a giant pod on top that acts as an eye for it to aim spikes like a projectile or flowers with curvy thorns, in short podlins come in many different styles but all always have a stripe some were on there body because it attracts most animals and bugs.