Flower

Flower

All flowers

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	JE: Yes (60) BE: Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	One-block-high: No Two-block-high: Yes

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Flowers are non-solid plants that occur in a variety of shapes and colors. They are primarily used for decoration and crafted into dyes.

Variants

Small flowers

• Allium
• Azure Bluet
• Blue Orchid
• Cornflower
• Dandelion
• Closed Eyeblossom
• Open Eyeblossom
• Lily of the Valley
• Oxeye Daisy
• Poppy
• Torchflower
• Orange Tulip
• Pink Tulip
• Red Tulip
• White Tulip
• Wither Rose

Tall flowers

• Lilac
• Peony
• Pitcher Plant
• Rose Bush
• Sunflower

Other flowers

The following blocks are also part of the minecraft:flowers block tag. While some of the information described in this overview page may apply to these blocks (for example, usage in bee-related features), they are not covered here due to their uniqueness and substantial differences from small and tall flowers.

• Cherry Leaves
• Chorus Flower
• Flowering Azalea
• Flowering Azalea Leaves
• Mangrove Propagule
• Pink Petals
• Spore Blossom

Obtaining

Breaking

A flower can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself. 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 as part of vegetation features in most biomes. Flowers can generate even if the biome is covered with snow. The tables in § Flower biomes show the types of small flowers that can naturally spawn in each biome when a new chunk is generated, as well as the flowers that can spawn when bone meal is used on grass blocks.

Sunflowers generate in sunflower plains; lilacs, rose bushes, and peonies can be found in forests, flower forests, birch forests, old growth birch forests, and dark forests.

Wither roses, torchflowers and pitcher plants do not generate naturally at all.

Natural dandelions are found in plains and savanna villages; poppies in plains, savanna, taiga, and snowy plains‌ villages; oxeye daisies, cornflowers, and azure bluets in plains villages. Potted dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red and white tulips, and oxeye daisies can be found in woodland mansions.

Flowers (and grass) can be found on dirt paths at villages, a place where the player can not place them.

Flower biomes

Flowers marked "Natural generation only" can only spawn when the chunk is initially generated, not when using bone meal; flowers marked "Bone meal only" cannot generate naturally, but can be created by players using bone meal on a grass block in that biome (§ Post-generation for more details).

Dandelions and poppies in jungles, bamboo jungles, sparse jungles, savannas and savanna plateaus (but not windswept savanna) are twice as common as in other biomes.

Some biomes - such as deserts - are technically enabled to generate vegetation features containing flowers, but do not generate dirt or grass blocks on the surface in regular worlds. This means that flowers are normally not generated in these biomes in regular worlds. Flowers can still be grown in these biomes by using bone meal on grass blocks, and they can generate naturally if a dirt or grass block surface is provided in custom superflats or custom worlds.

Java Edition

Flower	Plains Sunflower Plains Dripstone Caves Deep Dark	Forest Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest	Flower Forest	Meadow	Swamp	Pale Garden	Badlands Mushroom Fields Mangrove Swamp Most mountain biomes Lush Caves Nether, End, and Void	Any other
Dandelion	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Poppy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Blue Orchid	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Allium	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Azure Bluet	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Tulips	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Oxeye Daisy	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Cornflower	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Lily of the Valley	No	Natural generation only	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Eyeblossom	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No

Bedrock Edition

Flower	Plains Sunflower Plains	Forest Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest	Flower Forest	Meadow	Swamp	Pale Garden	Badlands Mushroom Fields Mangrove Swamp Cherry Grove Nether and End	Any other
Dandelion	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Bone meal only	Yes
Poppy	Yes	No	Yes	Natural generation only	No	No	No	No
Blue Orchid	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Allium	No	No	Yes	Natural generation only	No	No	No	No
Azure Bluet	Yes	No	Yes	Natural generation only	No	No	No	No
Tulips	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Oxeye Daisy	Yes	No	Yes	Natural generation only	No	No	No	No
Cornflower	Yes	No	Yes	Natural generation only	No	No	No	No
Lily of the Valley	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Eyeblossom	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No

Flower gradients

In some biomes, the placement of flowers is determined by gradients. These are not affected by the world seed. In Java Edition, gradients are three dimensional and change on the Y level, while in Bedrock Edition they are consistent at every height.

Flower forests

In a flower forest, any given coordinate can spawn only one type of flower, resulting in a gradient (pictured below). The gradient runs as follows:

• Dandelion‌
• Poppy
• Allium
• Azure bluet
• Red tulip
• Orange tulip
• White tulip
• Pink tulip
• Oxeye daisy
• Cornflower
• Lily of the valley

In Bedrock Edition, additional randomness is applied during terrain generation, meaning that some flowers might not perfectly align to the gradient.

Peonies, lilacs, and rose bushes generate independently from the gradient. In Java Edition, additional patches of lily of the valley are generated by a separate flower feature that does not follow the gradient and that cannot be regrown using bone meal.

• 

  Flower forest gradient in Java Edition

• 

  Flower forest gradient in Bedrock Edition

• 

  An example of how elevation affects the flower forest gradient in Java Edition

Meadows

In meadows, up to 3 gradients intersect and overlap to create complex patterns. Like in flower forests, any given coordinate can spawn only one type of flower. In Java Edition, the individual gradients run as follows:

• Tall grass
• Allium
• Poppy
• Azure bluet
• Dandelion
• Cornflower
• Oxeye daisy
• Short grass

Using bone meal in areas of the gradient where only tall grass or short grass generate does not create any flower.

In Bedrock Edition, the gradients only affect naturally generated vegetation; bone meal completely ignores the gradients and only generates dandelions. The individual gradients run as follows:

• Allium
• Poppy
• Cornflower
• Oxeye daisy
• Azure bluet
• Dandelion
• Short grass
• Nothing

• 

  Meadow flower gradient

Plains

Plains and sunflower plains use a simpler gradient that allows tulips to generate only in rare areas where no other kinds of flower can spawn. Flower types are otherwise selected randomly: dandelions, poppies, azure bluets, oxeye daisies, and cornflowers outside the tulip areas (with dandelions being more common than the others), and any type of tulip inside the tulip areas. Sunflowers in sunflower plains generate independently from the gradient.

In Java Edition, this pattern is also applied to dripstone caves and the deep dark, although flowers do not naturally generate there.

• 

  Tulip/Non-tulip gradient in plains

• 

  Tulips grown using bone meal in a dripstone cave in Java Edition

• 

  Tulips grown using bone meal in a deep dark biome in Java Edition

Post-generation

When bone meal is applied to a grass block, flowers have a chance of generating instead of short grass on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 15×5×15 area in Java Edition, or a 7×5×7 area in Bedrock Edition. In most biomes, the generated flower is picked randomly among all possible choices depending on the biome (see § Flower biomes for a chart of flowers that can be grown in each biome). In a few biomes, however, a gradient is applied and the generated flower additionally depends on the X/Y/Z coordinates.

Double flowers, wither roses and torchflowers cannot be obtained this way.

In Bedrock Edition, when bone meal is applied to a small flower (except wither rose and torchflower), more flowers appear on adjacent grass blocks without generating any short 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 (except pitcher plants) results in the flower dropping a copy of itself. This is the only renewable way to obtain double flowers.

Mob loot

Endermen can pick up any small flower in Java Edition, or only dandelions and poppies in Bedrock Edition; the flower is dropped if the enderman is killed while holding it.

Iron golems drop 0–2 poppies on death.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 1 of most small flowers for a single emerald. They cannot sell wither roses, torchflowers, and closed eyeblossoms, as well as tall flowers.

Usage

All of the blocks that flowers can be placed on. Dandelions represent small flowers, rose bushes represent large flowers, and wither roses represent additional blocks they can be placed on.

All kinds of flowers can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, pale moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots. Wither roses can also be planted on netherrack or soul sand. In Java Edition, wither roses can also be planted on soul soil. One-block-tall flowers can be planted in a flower pot.

All flowers can be crafted into dyes, and all small flowers can be used to craft suspicious stew.

Because flowers are non-solid transparent blocks, they can be used (like torches) to break blocks that fall on them, such as sand.

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 regular mushroom stew until fed another flower. Eating one bowl of suspicious stew restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation, as well as producing a brief status effect.

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Small Flower

Using different flowers results in different effects. All are short-lived, but some have lasting effects: Regeneration restores 2HP health, Poison inflicts up to 8HP damage, and Wither inflicts up to 3HP damage. The Saturation effect makes those stews a superfood: they restore up to 6 hunger and 12 saturation points on top of their food value, for a total of 12 ( × 6) and over 19 points of saturation.

Bees

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with flowers, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1. Bees attempt to pollinate wither roses, although they get damaged in the process if the difficulty is higher than Peaceful. Bees also get inflicted with Poison when they touch an open eyeblossom and the difficulty is higher than Peaceful. Bees ignore and do not interact with closed eyeblossoms. In Bedrock Edition, bees ignore snowlogged flowers.

Breeding

Dandelions can be used to lead, breed and grow rabbits.

Most flowers be used to lead, breed and grow bees. Wither roses and open eyeblossoms can be used to lead bees, but feeding a bee with them inflicts the bee with Wither or Poison respectively. Closed eyeblossoms cannot be lead, breed or grow bees at all.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of any flower have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Composting

Placing any flower (except for the torchflower or a pitcher plant) into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of flowers yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Placing a torchflower or a pitcher plant into a composter has a 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

History

[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a							Added dandelions 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.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Flowers now have a stretched model with wider texture planes.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100327							Flowers can no longer generate, due to changes in the terrain generator.
20100616							Flowers can now naturally generate again.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.0							The addition of tooltips has given flowers their official names.
1.2							Dandelions and roses can now be crafted into their respective dyes, each yielding 2 pieces.
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				Changed lighting.
[hide]Java Edition
August 15, 2013							Jeb mentions that new types of flowers would be added and shows sunflower and lilac.
1.7.2			13w36a				The blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, tulips (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisies, sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes, and peonies have been added.
							The texture of poppies has been changed. This is technically a texture change, as they are a redoing of roses.
							Flowers are now discentered like grass.
							Flowers are now flammable.
			13w37a				Each dandelion or poppy now only yields 1 dye, instead of 2.
1.8			14w04a				Flowers no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.
			14w07a				One-block-tall flower texture planes are no longer stretched by a factor of sqrt2.
			14w10c				One-block-tall flower texture planes are now stretched a bit more than they were previously - were the texture full, it would reach the corners of the block.
			14w17a				One-block-tall flower texture planes are now the same size as they were before 14w07a.
			14w25a				Flowers are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
			14w25b				Due to a bug, the sunflower's texture is broken when viewed from a certain angle.
			14w26a				Flowers are no longer subject to shading.
1.11			16w39a				Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
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 by applying bone meal on grass blocks.
			18w47b				The texture of the poppy has been changed.
			18w48a				Flowers now generate in the updated 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.
							Added wandering traders, which sell all 1-high flowers except wither roses.
1.15			19w34a				Flowers can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate flowers.
1.17			21w11a				Changed lighting.
			21w39a				The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added torchflowers behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.20			23w12a				Added pitcher plants.
							Torchflowers are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack and are also now renewable.
1.21.4			24w44a				Added eyeblossoms.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added dandelions and roses.
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 rose has been replaced with the poppy.
			build 3				Added dye recipes for all flowers.
v0.12.1			build 1				Flowers can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
v0.13.0			build 1				The flowers created using bone meal now depend on the biome.
v0.14.0			build 1				Using bone meal on a double flower spawns another of that flower as an item.
			build 3				The hitbox of flowers no longer occupies the entire block.
v0.15.0			build 2				The rose bush and peony textures have been changed, ported from the Legacy Console Edition.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
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.
							Various one block flowers now generate in new villages.
							Flowers, including two block flowers, are sold by the new wandering trader.
?							Wandering traders no longer sell tall flowers.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Flowers can be used to fill a 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.
1.19.70 Experiment Sniffer			Preview 1.19.70.23				Added torchflowers behind the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Torchflowers are now available without using the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
							Added pitcher plants.
1.20.70			Preview 1.20.70.24				The bottom halves of sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes, and peonies are no longer affected by Fortune.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.25				Added eyeblossoms.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added flowers and roses.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			The rose texture has been changed to the poppy texture. The name has not been changed.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added new flowers.
							The rose has been renamed to "Poppy".
			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.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added flowers.
[hide]Minecraft Education
1.0							Added flowers.
1.12							The textures of each flower have been changed.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.8.1			pre1				Added facing state to double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.13			17w47a				The ID of dandelions has 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.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.23				The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.22				The different double plant type block states for the double_plant ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.20.21				The ID of dandelions has been changed from yellow_flower to dandelion.

Issues

Issues relating to "Flower" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Before they were added to Minecraft, white flowers were already present in Minicraft.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  Patches of flowers in a plains biome.

• 

  Flowers in a forest biome.

• 

  Few small flower patches generated in a superflat world as a part of the village.

• 

  A strange-looking flower from an internal development build.

• 

  The plains flower gradient.

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  The flower forest flower gradient in Java Edition.

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  The meadow flower gradient.

• 

  Flowers generated around a lava lake. Some flowers have generated directly above the lava, in the air

External links

• Taking Inventory: Sunflower – Minecraft.net on November 2, 2018
• Taking Inventory: Lilac – Minecraft.net on January 16, 2020
• Taking Inventory: Cornflower – Minecraft.net on November 24, 2022