Flower

Flower

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	One-block-high: Yes, but does not catch fire from lava Two-blocks-high: Yes
Drops	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

Flowers are naturally occurring plants that come in a variety of shapes and colors.

Obtaining

See also: Tutorials/Flower farming

Flowers can be instantly broken with any item (or no item). A flower will also be broken if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location.

If water or a piston enters a flower's location when it is already occupying the same space as a snow layer,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} the flower will be lost.

Natural generation

Most flowers generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks. Even in a biome covered with snow, flowers will generate naturally on dirt blocks with grass, despite the adjoining dirt blocks being covered with snow. They also need light to grow if bone meal is used on a grass block.

Alliums and other one block flowers can also be found in woodland mansions.

Poppies, dandelions, and azure bluets can be found in plains villages.‌^{[BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

Dandelions can be found in savanna villages.‌^{[BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

Poppies can be found in taiga and snowy taiga villages.‌^{[BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

The only flower that doesn't naturally generate is the wither rose.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]} Instead, wither roses are generated on a block on which a mob is killed by a wither, as long as there is a valid block to support it. The explosion from the Wither Skull however occasionally ends up destroying the flower or the supporting block resulting in it being dropped as an item. If the block is invalid the flower will be dropped as an item instead.

Drops

Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death. This can't be affected by Looting enchantment.

Any mob killed by the wither may have a chance to drop one wither rose upon death.

Trading

Various flowers are sold by wandering trader for an emerald.‌^{[BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

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 will appear around it without grass.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

When bone meal is applied to a double flower, a second double flower will spawn 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 only spawn when the world is initially generated.

	Flower	Plains	Sunflower Plains	Swamp	Forests/Birch Forests/Dark Forests	Flower Forest	Any other
1	Dandelion	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
2	Poppy	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
3	Blue Orchid	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
4	Allium	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
5	Azure Bluet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
6	Tulips	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
7	Oxeye Daisy	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
8	Cornflower‌[Java, Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions only]‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
9	Lily of the Valley‌[Java, Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions only]‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]	No	No	No	Generation	Yes	No
10	Wither Rose‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]	No	No	No	No	No	No
11	Sunflower	No	Generation	No	No	No	No
12	Lilac	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
13	Rose Bush	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
14	Peony	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	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 only ever spawn one type of flower, resulting in a gradient (pictured below).

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 will spawn either tulips exclusively, or non-tulips exclusively. The color of tulip or type of non-tulip is determined randomly, and can vary between subsequent bone meal uses, but a non-tulip block will never spawn a tulip, and a tulip block will never spawn anything but tulips.

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

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  Flower Forest Gradient

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  Tulip/Non-Tulip Gradient

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.

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.

Damaging

Wither roses inflict the Wither status effect to any players or mobs touching it, dealing 1 () damage every half second. The effect lingers for 1 second after the player/mob leaves its block space.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Banner Pattern Flower	Paper + Oxeye Daisy
Black Dye	Wither Rose		‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Blue Dye	Cornflower		‌[JE, BE & PS4 only]‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Dyed Flower Charge Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Oxeye Daisy		Emblazons a dyed flower charge (flower icon)
Light Blue Dye	Blue Orchid
Light Gray Dye	Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip
Magenta Dye	Allium or Lilac	2
Orange Dye	Orange Tulip
Pink Dye	Pink Tulip or Peony	2
Rose Red	Poppy or Red Tulip or Rose Bush	2
White Dye	Lily of the Valley		‌[JE, BE & PS4 only]‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Yellow Dye	Dandelion or Sunflower

Composting

Placing a flower into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.11.0]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Name 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[upcoming: JE 1.14]	cornflower‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Lily of the Valley‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]	lily_of_the_valley‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Wither Rose‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]	wither_rose‌[upcoming: JE 1.14]
Sunflower	sunflower
Lilac	lilac
Rose Bush	rose_bush
Peony	peony

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Name ID	Numeric ID
Dandelion	yellow_flower	37
Flowers	red_flower	38
Double Flowers	double_plant	175

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.

Video

Note: This video is outdated, as lily of the valley, corn flower, and wither rose were all added in the 1.14. Also, flowers can now be used to craft suspicious stew in 1.14.

History

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a					Yellow flowers and roses added.
					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					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 tall grass when used on a grass block.
1.8			?		Yellow flowers have now become more abundant.
Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a		Flowers are now discentered like tall grass.
					Roses have now been renamed to poppies. The texture has now been changed from to to reflect the name change.
					"Yellow flower" has now been renamed to "Dandelion".
					Many new flowers have now been added: blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony.
					Flowers are now flammable.
1.8			14w04a		Flowers will now no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.
			14w17a		Dandelions will 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 will 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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			18w43a		Added Wither Rose, Cornflower, and Lily 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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Cyan Flower added. Rose was going to be a block, but replaced with cyan flower 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 orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony.
					Replaced Cyan Flower with Poppy.
			build 3		Added dye recipes for all flowers.
0.13.0			build 1		Which flowers are created using bonemeal will now depend on the biome.
					Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
0.14.0			build 1		Using bonemeal on a double flower will spawn another of that flower as an item.
			build 3		Hit boxes of flowers will now 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 will 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		Re-added dye recipe for dandelions, 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 cornflower and lily of the valley.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3		An oxeye daisy is now used to craft flower charge banner pattern.
					Various one block flower now generate in new villages.
					Flowers, including two block flowers, are sold by the new wandering trader.
					Changed texture of flowers.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1		Flower can be used to fill composter.
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 6		The rose bush and peony textures have now been changed from to .
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.88					Added cornflower and lily of the valley.
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.
• Like other non-solid transparent blocks, flowers can break falling objects such as sand.
• 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, as there is no white dye other than bone meal.^{[until JE 1.14]}
• If the player were to harvest any flower with shears, the shears will still take durability regardless of the flower still dropping like normal.

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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