Flower

Flower

Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
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: 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

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 flowers can also be found in woodland mansions.

Drops

Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death. This can be affected by Looting enchantment.

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	Forest	Flower Forest	Any other
Dandelion	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Poppy	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blue Orchid	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Allium	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Azure Bluet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Tulips	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Oxeye Daisy	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Sunflower	No	Generation	No	No	No	No
Lilac	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
Rose Bush	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
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. One-block flowers can be planted in a flower pot.

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.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Dandelion Yellow	Dandelion or Sunflower	2
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

Data values

ID

Block	ID Name	Numerical ID
Dandelion	yellow_flower[until 1.13] dandelion[upcoming 1.13]	37[until 1.13]
Flowers	red_flower[until 1.13]	38[until 1.13]
Double Flowers	double_plant[until 1.13]	175[until 1.13]
Poppy	poppy[upcoming 1.13]
Blue Orchid	blue_orchid[upcoming 1.13]
Allium	allium[upcoming 1.13]
Azure Bluet	azure_bluet[upcoming 1.13]
Red Tulip	red_tulip[upcoming 1.13]
Orange Tulip	orange_tulip[upcoming 1.13]
White Tulip	white_tulip[upcoming 1.13]
Pink Tulip	pink_tulip[upcoming 1.13]
Oxeye Daisy	oxeye_daisy[upcoming 1.13]
Sunflower	sunflower[upcoming 1.13]
Lilac	lilac[upcoming 1.13]
Rose Bush	rose_bush[upcoming 1.13]
Peony	peony[upcoming 1.13]

Block data

See also: Data values

Non-dandelion flowers use data values to differentiate between flower types. They also have block states which will replace data values in the future.

Block 37

	DV	Description
	0	Dandelion

^{[until 1.13]}

Block 38

	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

^{[until 1.13]}

Block 175

	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.

^{[until 1.13]}

Block state

See also: Block states

minecraft:red_flower

Name	Value	Description
type	poppy	Poppy
	blue_orchid	Blue Orchid
	allium	Allium
	houstonia	Azure Bluet
	red_tulip	Red Tulip
	orange_tulip	Orange Tulip
	white_tulip	White Tulip
	pink_tulip	Pink Tulip
	oxeye_daisy	Oxeye Daisy

minecraft:yellow_flower

Name	Value	Description
type	dandelion	Dandelion

^{[until 1.13]}

minecraft:double_plant^{[until 1.13]}

minecraft:tall_grass^{[upcoming 1.13]}

minecraft:large_fern^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Name	Value	Description
half	upper lower	The half of the plant contained in this block.
variant[until 1.13]	sunflower	Sunflower
	syringa	Lilac
	double_grass	Double Tallgrass
	double_fern	Large Fern
	double_rose	Rose Bush
	paeonia	Peony
facing[until 1.13]	north south east west	The direction the plant is facing. This is currently unused in-game. Upper-half blocks are always 'north', and lower-half blocks are always 'east'.

History

Classic
0.0.20a					Yellow flowers and roses added.
					Flowers could be placed on all block types, including lava and on top of each other. Flowers would also "float" when the block beneath them was broken.
0.24 (August 25, 2009)					Flowers now generate naturally in worlds.
Infdev
March 27, 2010					Flowers no longer generate due to changes in the terrain generator.
June 16, 2010					Flowers can naturally generate again.
Beta
1.6.6					Flowers can now be regrown. Bone meal was given the ability to generate them as well as tall grass when used on a grass block.
1.8					Yellow flowers became more abundant.
Official release
1.7.2			13w36a		Flowers are now discentered like tall grass.
					Renamed roses to poppies. Texture changed from to .
					Yellow flower renamed to dandelion.
					Many new flowers were 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 no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.
			14w17a		Dandelions generate in flower forest biomes.
			14w27a		Dandelions can be used to breed tamed rabbits.
			14w30a		Oxeye daisies can 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.
Upcoming Java Edition
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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Rose added.
0.1.0					Changed texture of rose to be cyan instead of red as an attempt to fix hardware issues, making the version exclusive cyan flower.
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 now depend on the biome.
					Dandelions can 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 no longer occupy the entire block.
?					Flowers can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
0.15.0			build 2		Changed rose bush and peony textures, ported from the Console Edition.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
					Due to a bug, Dandelions are no longer craftable except Classic UI.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			build 1		Re-added dye recipe for Dandelions except Classic UI.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1		Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Changed rose texture to poppy texture. (Name didn't change)
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added new flowers.
					Renamed roses to poppies
TU36	CU25	1.28	Patch 6		Changed rose bush and peony textures from to .

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 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.
• Neither roses nor rose bushes apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
• Flowers generated from bone meal in a flower forest biome depend only on horizontal position; the world seed has no effect. Flowers generated naturally with the chunk do depend on the world seed.
  • The flowers generate along a gradient: dandelion, poppy, allium, azure bluet, red tulip, orange tulip, white tulip, pink tulip, oxeye daisy.
• 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.
• Using bone meal on any small flower in Bedrock Edition will generate more flowers around it, without tall grass.
• A two block high flower drops itself when bone meal (or super fertilizer ^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}) is used on it.

Gallery

• 

  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. The texture can still be found in the game files as flower_paeonia.png

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  Unused texture 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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  The removed cyan flower.

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

References

Blocks

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