Flower

Flower

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes (60 java, 30 bedrock)
Catches fire from lava	One-block-high: No Two-block-high: Yes
Drops	Itself
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

A flower is a naturally occurring plant that occurs in a variety of shapes and colors.

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.

Obtaining

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.

In Bedrock Edition, if water or a piston enters a flower's location when it is already occupying the same space as a snow layer, the flower is lost.

Chest loot

Dandelions can be found in 22.8% of plains village house chests in stacks of 1.

Poppies can be found in 12.1% of plains village house chests in stacks of 1.

Drops

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.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: 1.13]} 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.

Villagers

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

Trading

All flowers except for the wither rose can be sold by the wandering trader for an emerald.

Bone meal

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 below).

When bone meal is applied to a single high flower, more flowers appear around it without grass.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} This does not apply to wither roses.‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13]}

When bone meal is applied to a double flower, a second double flower spawns as an item.

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	Plains	Sunflower Plains	Swamp	Forests Birch Forests Dark Forests	Flower Forest	Badlands Mushroom Fields	Nether	Any other
1	Dandelion	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal	No	Yes
2	Poppy	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	Bone Meal	No	Yes
3	Blue Orchid	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
4	Allium	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
5	Azure Bluet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
6	Tulips	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
7	Oxeye Daisy	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
8	Cornflower	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
9	Lily of the Valley	No	No	No	Generation	Yes	No	No	No
10	Wither Rose	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
11	Sunflower	No	Generation	No	No	No	No	No	No
12	Lilac	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No	No	No
13	Rose Bush	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No	No	No
14	Peony	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 slightly 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.

In plains and sunflower plains, a similar but more nuanced effect occurs, called the tulip/non-tulip gradient (also pictured below). Each coordinate in these biomes spawn either tulips exclusively, or non-tulips exclusively. The color of a tulip or type of non-tulip is determined randomly and can vary between subsequent bone meal uses, but a non-tulip block never spawns a tulip, and a tulip block never spawns anything but tulips.

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, badlands, mushroom fields and their respective biome variants require bone meal to grow poppies and dandelions.

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  Flower Forest Gradient.

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  Tulip/Non-Tulip Gradient.

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  Flower Forest Gradient with 1.14 flowers.

Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration or crafted into dyes, as well as planted on grass or dirt. Wither roses can also be planted on netherrack or soul sand. One-block-tall flowers can be planted in a flower pot. Some flowers can be used to craft suspicious stew.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13]}

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 bee hives and bee nests by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.15 & BE 1.14.0]}

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.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.15 & BE 1.14.0]}

Damaging

Wither roses inflict the Wither status effect to any players or non-immune mobs touching it, dealing 1 damage every half second. 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.

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
Allium	Fire Resistance	4s
Azure Bluet	Blindness	8s
Blue Orchid Dandelion	Saturation	0.35s
Cornflower	Jump Boost	6s
Lily of the Valley	Poison	12s
Oxeye Daisy	Regeneration	8s
Poppy	Night vision	5s
Tulips	Weakness	9s
Wither Rose	Wither	8s

Composting

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Dandelion	dandelion
Poppy	poppy
Blue Orchid	blue_orchid
Allium	allium
Azure Bluet	azure_bluet
Red Tulip	red_tulip
Orange Tulip	orange_tulip
White Tulip	white_tulip
Pink Tulip	pink_tulip
Oxeye Daisy	oxeye_daisy
Cornflower	cornflower
Lily of the Valley	lily_of_the_valley
Wither Rose	wither_rose
Sunflower	sunflower
Lilac	lilac
Rose Bush	rose_bush
Peony	peony

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Dandelion	yellow_flower	37
Flowers	red_flower	38
Double Flowers	double_plant	175
Wither Rose	wither_rose	471

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 wither_rose[verify]	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.[needs testing]
Java Edition Infdev
March 27, 2010					Flowers can now no longer generate, due to changes in the terrain generator.
June 16, 2010					Flowers can now naturally generate again.
Java Edition Beta
1.6.6					Flowers can now be regrown.
					Bone meal has now 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
1.7.2		13w36a			Flowers are now discentered like grass.
					Roses have now been renamed to poppies. The texture has now been changed to to reflect the name change.
					"Yellow flower" has now been renamed to "Dandelion".
					Many new flowers have now been added: blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, tulips (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes and peonies.
					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 now been changed from yellow_flower to dandelion.
					The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					The different block states for the double_plant ID have now 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 now been changed.
					Added wither roses, cornflowers and lilies of the valley.
					Flowers can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
		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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.15		19w34a			Flowers can now be used to breed bees.
					Bees can now pollinate flowers.
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.
0.4.0					Added dye recipe for dandelions.
0.5.0					Added names to items, giving the cyan flower the official name of Rose.
0.8.0		build 5			The position of flowers is now randomized.
0.9.0		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 now been replaced with the poppy.
		build 3			Added dye recipes for all flowers.
0.13.0		build 1			The flowers created using bone meal now depend on the biome.
					Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
0.14.0		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.
0.15.0		build 2			The rose bush and peony textures have now been changed, ported from the Legacy Console Edition.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
					Due to MCPE-21049, dandelions are now no longer craftable, except in the Classic UI.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			The dye recipe for dandelions has now 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 now 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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		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		Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25	CU14	1.17			The rose texture has now been changed to poppy texture. Although, the name hasn't changed.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added new flowers.
					Roses have now been renamed to poppies.
TU36	CU25	1.28	Patch 7		The rose bush and peony textures have now been changed from to .
PlayStation 4 Edition
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 now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added flowers.
Education Edition
1.0					Added flowers.

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.
• Despite being called "White Tulip", the white tulip is used to make light gray dye.

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 flower generated in mid-air, with a few flowers on sand close by.

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  The original single-block design of the peony that was never publicly released in-game and has since been removed.

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  The removed texture "paeonia" close up.

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  Flowers in a flower forest.

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  Sunflower naturally generated in a sunflower plains.

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  A patch of blue orchids that grew deep underground in a pitch-black cave.

References

Blocks

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