Flower

A flower is a naturally occurring plant that occurs in a variety of shapes and colors. Bees collect pollen from flowers and carry it back to their nests (or beehives) to turn it into honey. After bees collect pollen and start flying back to their nests or beehives, pollen particles that fall from the bees can cause crops to advance growth stages similar to using bone meal.

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. 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 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 which can naturally spawn in each biome when a new chunk is generated, and those which can spawn when using bone meal.

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 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 is set to , the flower is dropped as an item instead.

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

Trading
Wandering traders may sell any flowers except wither roses for a single emerald. $$, 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.

$$, when bone meal is applied to a single high flower that has been placed or generated on top of a grass block, more flowers appear around it without 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 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 or dirt. Wither roses can also be planted on netherrack, soul sand or 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.

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.

Bees
Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with flowers, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

If an oak or birch sapling has any kind of flower planted within two blocks when the sapling grows into a tree, there is a 1 in 20 chance of it having a new bee nest with 1-3 bees.

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
When not in peaceful difficulty, wither roses inflict the Wither status effect to any players or non-immune mobs touching it, dealing damage every half second or two seconds. 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
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 hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation, as well as producing a brief status effect.

Using different flowers results in different effects. All are short-lived, but some have lasting effects: The regeneration restores 2 or 3 health; Wither or poison inflicts up to 2 hearts damage. The saturation effectively 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  and over 19 points of saturation.

Composting
Placing a flower into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

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Metadata
$$, red flower and double plant uses the following data values:


 * Red Flower


 * Double Plant

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 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 in-game flower.
 * Wither roses deal the same damage while in contact (and a second more) as magma blocks, via the Wither status effect.
 * $$, crimson and warped roots are in the "Flower" section of the inventory.