Sunkern

Sunkern (Japanese: ヒマナッツ Himanuts) is a  introduced in Generation II.

It evolves into when exposed to a Sun Stone.

Biology
Sunkern is a mostly yellow, seed-like Pokémon with a small sprout growing out of its top. It has triangular, spike-like protrusions on top of its head, encircling the sprout. Its body has three broad, brown, vertical stripes. Two of the stripes start jaggedly above Sunkern's dark eyes and continue downward. The other stripe is directly below Sunkern's mouth. Since Sunkern's eyelids are brown, the brown streak patterning appears uninterrupted when Sunkern's eyes are closed.

Sunkern is known to be very weak. Aware of its weakness, it only feeds until it evolves. However, it feeds on only the dew from under the leaves of plants. It tries to move as little as possible, since it tries to conserve all the nutrients it has stored in its body for evolution. If attacked, it shakes its leaves at the attacker. Sunkern occasionally falls from the sky on early mornings for unknown reasons. A year after a cold summer, the population of Sunkern explodes. Sunkern can be found in.

Major appearances
Sunkern debuted in Moving Pictures. ,, , and Todd Snap found it frozen in a field. Ash eventually evolved it using his Sun Stone from The Bug Stops Here, and it summoned more so that Sophia and Marcello could take a picture for their.

Minor appearances
A Sunkern appeared in Pikachu's PikaBoo.

Multiple Sunkern appeared in Grass Hysteria! as residents of the Forbidden Forest.

Multiple Sunkern appeared in Island Time.

A Sunkern appeared in Some Enchanted Sweetening!, where it was lured in by the Honey that Cheryl had slathered onto a tree. Additional Sunkern also appeared in a boss fantasy in the same episode, but said boss fantasy was cut from the dub due to it containing suggestive material.

Two Sunkern appeared in An Angry Combeenation!.

A Sunkern appeared in Dawn's Early Night!.

A Sunkern appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 1). Six additional Sunkern appeared in the follow-up episode.

A Sunkern briefly appeared in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.

A Sunkern appeared in the opening sequence of Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where it was seen in an 's field of flowers.

Multiple Sunkern appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions as some of the many local Pokémon living in Crown City. Some took part in surrounding in the park along with the other Pokémon with the intention of attacking him in retribution for what  did to the city. Before a fight could break out, the Sunkern, along with the other Pokémon, were calmed down by.

In the movie adaptations
Sunkern appeared in .

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Sunkern debuted in The Legend when two were seen up on a tree when had finished her message to  in Johto.

A Sunkern was one of the Pokémon in Joey's bag after helped Joey get it back in Murkrow Row.

In Sunkern Treasure, encounters a herd of Sunkern escaping from a. To help Falkner the Skarmory, Gold catches a Sunkern to use her jumping ability to get high enough and attack it. Afterwards, she was nicknamed Sunbo and later evolved into a Sunflora through a makeshift Sun Stone.

A Sunkern appeared in The Last Battle XIII as one of the Pokémon sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.

Yuko owns a Sunkern, which first appeared in The Transfer Student.

A Sunkern appeared in PS544.

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Trivia

 * Sunkern is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 180.
 * Sunkern has the lowest base of all  Pokémon, is tied with  for the lowest base  stat of all  Pokémon, is tied with  and  for the lowest base  stat of all  Pokémon, and has the lowest base stat total of all Grass-type Pokémon.
 * Sunkern shares its name with  and its evolutions. They are all known as the Seed Pokémon.
 * Sunkern's official artwork more closely resembled its Shiny form in than its regular form. This was somewhat rectified in Crystal, although the artwork was still more similar to its Shiny sprite; this discrepancy was fully rectified in Generation III.
 * In The Official Pokémon Handbook 3, published by, Sunkern's data says its height is 0'01" when it is actually 1'00".
 * Sunkern has the highest average Performance of any unevolved Pokémon.
 * His appearances in the Stephen Squirrelsky and Friends' Movie Spoof Travels are A Pooh in Central Park and will possibly be in more spoof travels.
 * He appears as Waldo's Pokemon in A Pooh in Central Park.

Origin
Sunkern is based on a ing.

Name origin
Sunkern is a combination of  and kernel.

Himanuts may be a combination of 向日葵 himawari (sunflower) and nuts. It may also refer to 夏 natsu (summer).