Animating Vines

You enchant a plant to take the place of a dead creature. This creature must be of CR 2 or lower, cannot cast a spell, and is not a fey, fiend, or celestial.The creature has the stats of its living self. You and the creature share an action, bonus action, and reaction. Anything you can do the creature can also do including spell casting. You and the creature share 120 ft of telepathy. If the creature is more than 120 ft away from you cannot talk to or command the creature, and the creature is paralyzed. The creature does not have its own concentration. If you cast the spell again the creature will teleport into an unoccupied space within 10 ft of you with the duration of the spell reset.

At Higher Levels: If the Spell is cast at level 6 you and the creature share two actions, and the creature can be of CR 3 or lower. At level 7 the creature has it own concentration, and can be of CR 4 or lower. At level 8 the creature can cast polymorph on itself as an action without a spell slot. At level 9 the creature can be of CR 5 or lower.