Flower

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

## Obtaining

### Breaking

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. In Bedrock Edition, harvesting two-high flowers with a Fortune-enchanted tool may increase the yield (for example, up to 7 sunflowers per harvested sunflower).

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 in random patches 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.

Potted dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red and white tulips, and oxeye daisies can be found in woodland mansions.

Natural dandelions are found in plain and savanna villages; poppies in plain, savanna, taiga, and snowy plains‌[*BE only*] villages; oxeye daisies, cornflowers, and azure bluets in plain villages.

#### Flower biomes

This table shows the types of flowers which can naturally spawn in each biome when a new chunk is generated, and those which can spawn when using bone meal.

#### Flower gradients

See also: Noise generator

When flowers spawn from bone meal, the type spawned depends on the X/Y/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.

Meadows work similarly to flower forests. The flowers there are limited to alliums, poppies, azure bluets, dandelions, cornflowers, and oxeye daisies.

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 and their respective biome variants require bone meal to grow poppies and dandelions.

### 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. 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. Wither roses are dropped even when `/gamerule doMobLoot` is set to `false`.

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

### Chest loot

Dandelions can be found in generated chests in NPC Villages.

### 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.

### Post-generation

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 above). Double flowers cannot be obtained this way.

Applying bone meal to a double flower results in the flower dropping a copy of itself. This is the only renewable way to obtain double flowers.

## Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration or crafted into dyes, as well as planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, moss or mud. 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. 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.

13 out of all flower types are one-block high, and 4 out of them are two-block in height, whose hitboxes are larger than most of 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 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, including wither roses.

### Damaging

When not in peaceful difficulty, 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.

### Crafting

* Paper, Oxeye Daisy - Banner Pattern Flower
* Allium - Magenta Dye
* Azure Bluet - Light Gray Dye
* Blue Orchid - Light Blue Dye
* Blue Hydrangea - Ultramarine Dye
* Buttercup - Orange Dye
* Cornflower - Blue Dye
* Daffodil - Chartreuse Dye
* Dandelion - Yellow Dye
* Forget-me-not - Capri Dye
* Iris - Violet Dye
* Lilac - Magenta Dye
* Lily of the Valley - White Dye
* Orange Tulip - Orange Dye
* Oxeye Daisy - Light Gray Dye
* Peony - Pink Dye
* Pink Hydrangea - Rose Dye
* Pink Tulip - Pink Dye
* Poppy - Red Dye
* Purple Hydrangea - Indigo Dye
* Red Hydrangea - Rose Dye
* Red Tulip - Red Dye
* Rose Bush - Red Dye
* Sunflower - Yellow Dye
* White Tulip - Light Gray Dye
* Wither Rose - Black Dye

### 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. Eating one restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation, as well as producing a brief status effect.

* Allium - Fire Resistance (4s)
* Azure Bluet - Blindness (8s)
* Blue Orchid - Saturation (0.35s)
* 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)

### 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. Eating one restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation, as well as producing a brief status effect.

### Composting

Placing a flower 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.

### Bee nests

Oak and birch trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of any flower have a 5% chance to grow with bee nest and 1-3 bees in it.

## 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 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.
* When Notch made the dandelion (the texture in the Programer Art pack), he used the rose as a base for its texture.
* Peonies were used at Jeb's wedding.
* Rose bushes apply damage when walking through them, similar to Sweet Berry Bushes.
* Allium is a genus composed of bulb vegetables such as onions, garlic, and related vegetables, which have large, pink inflorescences resembling that of the in-game flower.
* Wither roses deal the same damage while in contact (and a second more) as magma blocks, via the Wither status effect.
* In Bedrock Edition, crimson and warped roots are in the "Flower" section of the inventory.
* Unlike both parts of its name suggests, the Azure Bluets are not blue in Minecraft. In real life, their pale-blue color looks light grey at a distance.