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Well, maybe! Honestly, it's a little ambiguous right up to the end, where Abby says "He realized the plants couldn't survive without man, and so the plants backed down" and Swamp Thing agrees.

It does certainly seem that Woodrue and the Swamp Thing (can't call him "Alec" right now) get very different messages from the Green, which at least implies that their nature shapes their response to it. But elsewhere in the text, the JLA talk about a "mass-plant mind" that Raven can telepathically reach but not fully understand.

It never really occurred to me to doubt the JLA's tactical assessment. It's radical enough that they're completely ineffectual in this story except as a cleanup crew, despite the way Moore mythologizes them. I figured he'd at least grant them the dignity of knowing what they're talking about.