As an action, plant your roots into earthen terrain.

You gain the following traits:
-Your speed becomes 0 and cannot be increased.
-You regain 1 HP upon using this action, then 1 HP at the start of your following turns.
-You gain disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Throws.
-Forceful movement and teleportation cause this feature to be interrupted, in which case you must use an action on your turn to plant your roots again.
-If your form is altered by an effect like Polymorph or Wildshape, you cannot use this feature until that effect ends.

You may end this feature as a bonus action.

The maximum amount of HP that this feature can recover is based on your class levels. Once this this trait has healed [2x Total Class Levels] HP, no more health can be recovered in this way until you finish a long rest.

Your skin acts as a natural defense.
You may choose to use armor or your unarmored defense.

Unarmored Defense=12 + Constitution Modifier

Shields still apply a bonus as normal.

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

These creatures are built to last. The druids needed them to guard the wilds for as long as possible.

Grove Guardians live for about 500 years.

Instead of sleeping, Bäume simply need to spend 4 hours unmoving, rooted in sand, dirt, mud, loose stone or gravel. Light activity can be done during this time such as reading, writing, or keeping watch.
A Bäum unable to take root overnight gains one point of exhaustion that remains until a long rest in the above conditions. This trait cannot increase exhaustion level beyond level one.

For 24 hours after you take a rooted long rest, you do not need to eat or drink.

You can Speak, Read, and Write Common and Sylvan.

You are weak to unnatural fire. Fire damage that is caused by a spell of 1st level or higher does an increase of 1d6 damage per level of the spell against you.