User blog comment:Ralok/How do we handle plants?/@comment-1197011-20130204114944

There's another option available: Category:Phototrophs.

Science fiction is full of mobile (and usually carnivorous) plants. What makes them "plants" or "flora" anyway? In any ecology, they would take a role much more akin to Earth animals. If what makes them "plants" is the ability to use the sun's energy to feed (for Earth plants meaning oxidize water/reduce carbon compounds, although in alien worlds it could be any kind of chemical reaction triggered by sunlight/starlight) so, they're phototrophs. My only concern is whether casual readers will know what a "phototroph" is...