Bog beast

Bog beasts are large plant-like creatures, often found in temperate marshes of Azeroth. Unlike animals, they reproduce by seeds.

Description
These massive plants might be mistaken for a thick clump of vegetation if not for their vaguely humanoid shape and surprising mobility. As the name suggests, bog beasts are massive, shambling monsters that are half plant and half beast. Some Bog beasts, referred to as Tar beasts, are a type of conglomerate elemental of earth and water. Not much is known about these secretive lords of the swamp except that they are territorial and quite aggressive. Explorers have recorded stories of their immense strength and resilience to harm. Bog beasts are known to wander the Dustwallow Marsh south of the Barrens. Bog beasts use their strength to slam into their enemies, crushing opponents' defenses with their fists and whatever large objects they can throw at them.

Bog beasts are also found in the Swamp of Sorrows, Ashenvale, and Teldrassil.

Variants
The plant creatures timberlings and thistleshrubs and the conglomerate elemental creatures tar beasts, while using the same model as bog beasts, are each considered separate types of creatures. Bog beast still remains a broad categorization for the various varieties. Loatheb is an undead Fungal monster, was a "hideous result of fusing the living plague with bog beasts of Azeroth". Similarly, Bog beasts in Outland may become fungal horrors.

It is speculated that the Mistlurkers in Pandaria are a form of Bog beast specialized for the the continent's misty surface.