You conjure a vine that sprouts from the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range. When you cast this spell, you can direct the vine to lash out at a creature within 30 feet of it that you can see, making a melee spell attack against that creature. On a hit, the target takes magical slashing damage equal to 3d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. You can also forfeit the damage on this attack, and instead opt to grapple a creature that you hit. While they are grappled in this manner, they are also restrained. At the end of the grappled creatures turn, they may make a Strength check against your spell save to break out of the vine's grapple.
The vine itself has an AC of 10, 50 hit points, as well as a vulnerability to fire and lightning damage, but is immune to poison and psychic damage. The vine appears differently depending on your subclass, appearing healthy and green with white thorns for most druids and nature clerics, or a more vibrant green with red thorns for a warlock, etc. The choice is up to you.
Until the spell ends, you can direct the vine to lash out at the same creature or another one within its range as a bonus action on each of your turns.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for every slot level above 4th. For every spell slot above 4th level, the hit points of the vine also goes up by 5.
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