Flower

Flower

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes (60 java, 30 bedrock)
Catches fire from lava	One-block-high: No Two-block-high: Yes

A flower is a naturally occurring plant that occurs in a variety of shapes and colors. Bees collect pollen from flowers and carry it back to their nests (or beehives) to turn it into honey. After bees collect pollen and start flying back to their nests or beehives, pollen particles that fall from the bees can cause crops to advance growth stages similar to using bone meal.

Obtaining

Breaking

See also: Tutorials/Flower farming

Flowers can be broken instantly with any item or by hand. Harvesting a flower with shears consumes the durability of the shears for no additional benefit.

A flower also breaks if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location.

Natural generation

Most flowers generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks. Even in a biome covered with snow, flowers generate naturally on dirt blocks with grass, despite the adjoining dirt blocks being covered with snow.

Dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red and white tulips, and oxeye daisies can be found in woodland mansions.

Poppies, dandelions, and azure bluets can be found in plains villages.

Dandelions can be found in savanna villages.

Poppies can be found in taiga and snowy taiga villages.

Flower biomes

This table shows the types of flowers that can naturally generate in each biome, as well as the types that can spawn from bone meal. Flowers marked with "generation" can spawn only when the world is initially generated.

Flower	Dye Color	Plains	Sunflower Plains	Swamp	Forests Birch Forests Dark Forests	Flower Forest	Badlands Mushroom Fields	Nether The End	Any other
Dandelion	Yellow	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Poppy	Red	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Blue Orchid	Light Blue	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Allium	Magenta	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Azure Bluet	Light Gray	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Tulips	Red, Pink, Light Gray, Orange	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Oxeye Daisy	Light Gray	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Cornflower	Blue	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Lily of the Valley	White	No	No	No	Generation	Yes	No	No	No
Wither Rose	Black	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Sunflower	Yellow	No	Generation	No	No	No	No	No	No
Lilac	Magenta	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No	No	No
Rose Bush	Red	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No	No	No
Peony	Pink	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No	No	No

Flower gradients

When flowers spawn from bone meal, the type spawned depends on the X/Z position in the world. Different biomes result in different behaviors. Note that these behaviors don't necessarily match naturally generated flowers since additional randomness is applied during terrain generation.

In a flower forest, any given coordinate can spawn only one type of flower, resulting in a gradient (pictured below). This gradient runs from dandelions, poppies, alliums, azure bluets, red tulips, orange tulips, white tulips, pink tulips, oxeye daisies, cornflowers to lilies of the valley.

Plains and sunflower plains have a simpler gradient where tulips spawn only in rare patches where no other kinds of flower can spawn. Flower types are otherwise random, and include dandelions, poppies, azure bluets, oxeye daisies and cornflowers.

No other biome has a gradient; swamps can spawn only blue orchids, while all other biomes can spawn only dandelions and poppies.

Generation of dandelions and poppies in jungle variants and savanna variants (but not shattered savanna variants) are twice as common as in other biomes. Some other biomes, such as deserts and their respective biome variants require bone meal to grow poppies and dandelions.

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  Flower forest gradient.

Mob loot

Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death. This is unaffected by the Looting enchantment.

Any mob killed by the wither drops one wither rose upon death. If possible, the wither rose is placed on the block where the mob died. If the flower cannot be placed there, or if /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false, the flower is dropped as an item instead.

In Java Edition, baby villagers may give a poppy to players with the Hero of the Village effect.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Dandelion	Village	Plains house chest	1	22.8%
Bedrock Edition
Dandelion	Village	Plains house chest	1	22.8%

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Poppy	Village	Plains house chest	1	12.1%
Bedrock Edition
Poppy	Village	Plains house chest	1	12.1%

Trading

Wandering traders may sell any flowers except wither roses for a single emerald. In Java Edition, they cannot sell sunflowers, rose bushes, lilacs, or peonies.

Post-generation

When bone meal is applied to a grass block, flowers have a chance of generating instead of tall grass on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks up to 7 blocks away in both directions (a 15x15 square). The generated flower depends on both the biome and the X/Z coordinates (see above). Double flowers cannot be obtained this way.

In Bedrock Edition, when bone meal is applied to a single high flower, more flowers appear around it without grass. With the exception of dandelions and poppies, the flowers that form around are the same type as the original flower. In the case of dandelions, poppies occasionally appear, and vice versa for poppies. The flowers can appear up to 3 blocks away from the original, forming a 7×7 square.

Applying bone meal to a double flower results in the flower dropping a copy of itself. This is the only renewable way to obtain double flowers.

Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration or crafted into dyes, as well as planted on grass blocks or dirt. Wither roses can also be planted on netherrack, soul sand or soul soil. One-block-tall flowers can be planted in a flower pot. Some flowers can be used to craft suspicious stew.

Because flowers are non-solid transparent blocks, they can be used (like torches) to break falling objects such as sand.

Double tall flowers have a disproportionately large hitbox compared to other plants, which is a feature intentionally programmed into the game. The only exception to this rule is tall seagrass.

Bees

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with flowers, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

Navigation

Sunflowers always face east, making them useful for navigation if the sun is not visible.

Breeding

Dandelions can be used to breed, grow and lead rabbits. Any flower can be used for bees.

Damaging

When not in peaceful difficulty, wither roses inflict the Wither status effect to any players or non-immune mobs touching it, dealing 1 damage every half second‌^{[Java Edition only]} or two seconds.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} The effect lingers for 1 second after the player/mob leaves its block space. Wither skeletons, the wither, and the ender dragon are not affected due to their Wither immunity.

When placed in a flower pot, wither roses do not cause damage to any entity.

Suspicious stew

Main article: Suspicious Stew

All small flowers can be used to create suspicious stew. When a flower is used on a brown mooshroom, the brown mooshroom produces a suspicious stew related to that flower the next time it is milked with a bowl. The mooshroom returns to producing mushroom stew until fed another flower.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Flower

Using different flowers results in different effects.

Flower	Effect	Duration (BE)	Duration (JE)
Allium	Fire Resistance	2s	4s
Azure Bluet	Blindness	6s	8s
Blue Orchid Dandelion	Saturation	0.3s	0.35s
Cornflower	Jump Boost	4s	6s
Lily of the Valley	Poison	10s	12s
Oxeye Daisy	Regeneration	6s	8s
Poppy	Night Vision	4s	5s
Tulips	Weakness	7s	9s
Wither Rose	Wither	6s	8s

Composting

Placing a flower into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance	Sound parameters
									Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance	Stream	Preload
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16	?	?	?	?	?
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16	?	?	?	?	?
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16	?	?	?	?	?
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16	?	?	?	?	?
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16	?	?	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch	Sound parameters
					Volume	Pitch	Stream	Load on low memory
?	Breaking the block	dig.grass	0.5	0.8	?	?	?	?
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.grass	0.6	0.5	?	?	?	?
?	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Walking on the block	step.grass	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Placing the block	dig.grass	1	0.8	?	?	?	?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Translation key
Dandelion	dandelion	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.dandelion
Poppy	poppy	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.poppy
Blue Orchid	blue_orchid	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.blue_orchid
Allium	allium	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.allium
Azure Bluet	azure_bluet	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.azure_bluet
Red Tulip	red_tulip	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.red_tulip
Orange Tulip	orange_tulip	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.orange_tulip
White Tulip	white_tulip	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.white_tulip
Pink Tulip	pink_tulip	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.pink_tulip
Oxeye Daisy	oxeye_daisy	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.oxeye_daisy
Cornflower	cornflower	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.cornflower
Lily of the Valley	lily_of_the_valley	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.lily_of_the_valley
Wither Rose	wither_rose	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.wither_rose
Sunflower	sunflower	flowers tall_flowers	flowers tall_flowers	block.minecraft.sunflower
Lilac	lilac	flowers tall_flowers	flowers tall_flowers	block.minecraft.lilac
Rose Bush	rose_bush	flowers tall_flowers	flowers tall_flowers	block.minecraft.rose_bush
Peony	peony	flowers tall_flowers	flowers tall_flowers	block.minecraft.peony

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Dandelion	yellow_flower	37	tile.yellow_flower.dandelion.name
One-high flowers (except dandelion and wither rose)	red_flower	38	tile.red_flower.poppy.name tile.red_flower.blueOrchid.name tile.red_flower.allium.name tile.red_flower.houstonia.name tile.red_flower.tulipRed.name tile.red_flower.tulipOrange.name tile.red_flower.tulipWhite.name tile.red_flower.tulipPink.name tile.red_flower.oxeyeDaisy.name tile.red_flower.cornflower.name tile.red_flower.lilyOfTheValley.name
Two-high flowers	double_plant	175	tile.double_plant.sunflower.name tile.double_plant.syringa.name tile.double_plant.rose.name tile.double_plant.paeonia.name
Wither Rose	wither_rose	471	tile.wither_rose.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, red flower and double plant uses the following data values:

Red Flower

	DV	Description
	0	Poppy
	1	Blue Orchid
	2	Allium
	3	Azure Bluet
	4	Red Tulip
	5	Orange Tulip
	6	White Tulip
	7	Pink Tulip
	8	Oxeye Daisy
	9	Cornflower
	10	Lily of the Valley

Double Plant

	DV	Description
	0	Sunflower
	1	Lilac
	2	Double Tallgrass
	3	Large Fern
	4	Rose Bush
	5	Peony
	8	Top Half of any Large Plant; low three bits 0x7 are derived from the block below.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
half	lower	lower upper	The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition:
All small flowers except dandelion

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
flower_type	poppy	allium cornflower houstonia lily_of_the_valley orchid oxeye poppy tulip_orange tulip_pink tulip_red tulip_white	The flower type.

Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
double_flower_type	sunflower	fern grass paeonia rose sunflower syringa	The flower type.
upper_block_bit	false	false true	If the upper half of the plant contained in this block.

History

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a					Added yellow flowers and roses.
					Flowers can be placed on all block types, including lava and on top of each other. Flowers can also "float" when the block beneath them is broken.
August 25, 2009					Notch showed flowers generating naturally in worlds.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added flowers to world generation.[is this the correct version?]
Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev		20100327			Flowers can no longer generate, due to changes in the terrain generator.
		20100616			Flowers can now naturally generate again.
Java Edition Beta
1.6.6					Flowers can now be regrown.
					Bone meal has been given the ability to generate flowers as well as grass when used on a grass block.
1.8		Pre-release			Yellow flowers have now become more abundant.
Java Edition
August 15, 2013					Jeb mentioned that new types of flowers to come to the game and shows sunflower and lilac.
August 16, 2013					Jeb shows Paeonia.
1.7.2		13w36a			The blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, tulips (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes, peonies have been added.
					"Rose" has been renamed to "Poppy".
					The texture of poppies has been changed.
					"Yellow flower" has been renamed to "Dandelion".
					Flowers are now discentered like grass.
					Flowers are now flammable.
1.8		14w04a			Flowers no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.
		14w17a			Dandelions now generate in flower forest biomes.
		14w27a			Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
		14w30a			Oxeye daisies can now be used to apply patterns to banners.
1.8.1		pre1			Added facing state to minecraft:double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.11		16w39a			Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets image of a new jungle wood planks, cauldron and dandelion textures.
1.13		17w47a			The ID has been changed from yellow_flower to dandelion.
					The different block states for the red_flower ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					The different block states for the double_plant ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 37, 38 and 175.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red tulips, orange tulips, white tulips, pink tulips, oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes and peonies have been changed.
					Added wither roses, cornflowers and lilies of the valley.
					Flowers can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
					When updating to 1.14, the flower gradient is updated for all flower forests. This means that it is possible to find cornflowers and lilies of the valley in flower forests that were generated prior to 1.14.
		18w47b			The texture of the poppy has been changed.
		18w48a			Flowers now generate in and around plains villages.
		19w03a			Placing a flower into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Flowers now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.14.4		Pre-Release 1			Crafting a suspicious stew with a poppy now gives the player night vision instead of speed.
1.15		19w34a			Flowers can now be used to breed bees.
					Bees can now pollinate flowers.
1.16		20w19a			Mobs can no longer spawn on Wither Roses.
		20w21a			Wither Skeletons can spawn on Wither Roses again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added dandelions and roses. The rose was going to be identical to Java's, but it was replaced with cyan texture because of hardware issues.
v0.4.0					Added dye recipe for dandelions.
v0.5.0					Added names to items, giving the cyan flower the official name of Rose.
v0.8.0		build 5			The position of flowers is now randomized.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added new flowers: blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, tulips (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes and peonies.
					The cyan flower has been replaced with the poppy.
		build 3			Added dye recipes for all flowers.
v0.13.0		build 1			The flowers created using bone meal now depend on the biome.
					Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
v0.14.0		build 1			Using bone meal on a double flower spawns another of that flower as an item.
		build 3			Hit boxes of flowers no longer occupy the entire block.
?					Flowers can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
v0.15.0		build 2			The rose bush and peony textures have been changed, ported from the Legacy Console Edition.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
					Dandelions are no longer craftable, except in the Classic UI.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			The dye recipe for dandelions has been re-added, except in the Classic UI.
					Oxeye daisies can now be used to apply patterns to banners.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Added cornflowers and lilies of the valley.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red tulips, orange tulips, white tulips, pink tulips, oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes and peonies have been changed.
					An oxeye daisy is now used to craft flower charge banner pattern.
					Various one block flowers now generate in new villages.
					Flowers, including two block flowers, are sold by the new wandering trader.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Flowers can be used to fill composter.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Applying bone meal to any 1-block flower now creates flowers of the same type. Previously, it would create only dandelions and poppies.
		beta 1.13.0.9			Added the wither rose.
					Flowers can now be used to make suspicious stew.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Flowers can now be used to breed bees.
					Bees can now pollinate flowers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25	CU14	1.17			The rose texture has been changed to poppy texture. Although, the name hasn't changed.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added new flowers.
					Roses have been renamed to poppies.
TU36	CU25	1.28	Patch 7		The rose bush and peony textures have been changed from to .
		1.88			Added cornflowers and lilies of the valley.
		1.90			The textures of dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red tulips, orange tulips, white tulips, pink tulips, oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes and peonies have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added flowers.
Education Edition
1.0					Added flowers.
1.12					The textures of each flower have been changed.

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  First Image of a Paeonia

Issues

Issues relating to "Flower" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Due to the nature of the flower generation algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-generated flowers and grass in lava, caverns or abandoned mineshafts. Also, it is possible to find flowers and wheat seeds dropped as an item on the ground naturally, due to failure to generate on an acceptable block.
• Peonies were used at Jeb's wedding.
• Rose bushes do not apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
• Allium is a genus composed of bulb vegetables such as onions, garlic, and related vegetables, which have large, pink inflorescences resembling that of the flower item.
• Wither roses do the same damage while in contact (and a second more) as magma blocks, via the Wither status effect.

Gallery

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  Patches of flowers in a plains biome.

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  A rose found growing near lava.

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  A flowers generated in mid-air, with a few flowers on stone close by.

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  Flowers in a flower forest.

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  Sunflowers naturally generated in a sunflower plains.

References

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