Flower

Flower

Transparent	Yes
Luminant	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

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

Occurrence

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	Plains	Sunflower Plains	Swamp	Forests Birch Forests Dark Forests	Flower Forest	Badlands Mushroom Fields	Nether	Any other (except the End)
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 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, badlands, mushroom fields and their respective biome variants require bone meal to grow poppies and dandelions.

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  Flower forest gradient.

Post-generation

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. This does not apply to wither roses. ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

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

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

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.

Namespaced ID	Source	Default
blocks/allium	Allium	1 (100%)
blocks/azure_bluet	Azure Bluet	1 (100%)
blocks/blue_orchid	Blue Orchid	1 (100%)
blocks/cornflower	Cornflower	1 (100%)
blocks/dandelion	Dandelion	1 (100%)
blocks/lilac	Lilac	1 (100%)
blocks/lily_of_the_valley	Lily of the Valley	1 (100%)
blocks/orange_tulip	Orange Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/oxeye_daisy	Oxeye Daisy	1 (100%)
blocks/peony	Peony	1 (100%)
blocks/pink_tulip	Pink Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/poppy	Poppy	1 (100%)
blocks/potted_allium	Potted Allium	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_azure_bluet	Potted Azure Bluet	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_blue_orchid	Potted Blue Orchid	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_cornflower	Potted Cornflower	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_dandelion	Potted Dandelion	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_lily_of_the_valley	Potted Lily of the Valley	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_orange_tulip	Potted Orange Tulip	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_oxeye_daisy	Potted Oxeye Daisy	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_pink_tulip	Potted Pink Tulip	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_poppy	Potted Poppy	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_red_tulip	Potted Red Tulip	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_white_tulip	Potted White Tulip	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/potted_wither_rose	Potted Wither Rose	1 (100%) 1 (100%)
blocks/red_tulip	Red Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/rose_bush	Rose Bush	1 (100%)
blocks/sunflower	Sunflower	1 (100%)
blocks/white_tulip	White Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/wither_rose	Wither Rose	1 (100%)

From 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.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]} 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.

From 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.

From villager gifts

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

From 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.

Usage

Info

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.

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.

Block loot

Namespaced ID	Source	Default
blocks/allium	Allium	1 (100%)
blocks/azure_bluet	Azure Bluet	1 (100%)
blocks/blue_orchid	Blue Orchid	1 (100%)
blocks/cornflower	Cornflower	1 (100%)
blocks/dandelion	Dandelion	1 (100%)
blocks/lilac	Lilac	1 (100%)
blocks/lily_of_the_valley	Lily of the Valley	1 (100%)
blocks/orange_tulip	Orange Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/oxeye_daisy	Oxeye Daisy	1 (100%)
blocks/peony	Peony	1 (100%)
blocks/pink_tulip	Pink Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/poppy	Poppy	1 (100%)
blocks/red_tulip	Red Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/rose_bush	Rose Bush	1 (100%)
blocks/sunflower	Sunflower	1 (100%)
blocks/white_tulip	White Tulip	1 (100%)
blocks/wither_rose	Wither Rose	1 (100%)

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

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	?	0.35s
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	Subtitle key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	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
?	Breaking the block	dig.grass	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.grass	?	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	use.grass	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Dandelion	yellow_flower	37	tile.yellow_flower.name
One-high flowers (except dandelion and wither rose)	red_flower	38	?
Two-high flowers	double_plant	175	?
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
March 27, 2010					Flowers can 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 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 been renamed to poppies. The texture has been changed to to reflect the name change.
					"Yellow flower" has been renamed to "Dandelion".
					Many new flowers have 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 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.
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 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 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		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.

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.

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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