Coincidentally, this particular plant had been ritualistically blessed by Native-American shamans during the late 1800s.
There's not really even a climactic moment to finish it up - Storm gets tired of waiting for one and blows everything up.
Part of this is attributable to the release late last year of Frank Miller's three-volume The Dark Knight Strikes Again, the much-anticipated sequel to his 1986 million-selling refashioning of the Batman saga The Dark Knight Returns.