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Flowers are naturally occurring plants that spawn randomly in clusters on grass blocks. They can be planted on grass, farmland, podzol, and dirt blocks. Flowers cannot be cultivated like trees, sugar cane, or crops, but can occasionally spawn when bone meal is used to generate patches of grass. Flowers can be used to make dyes.

To survive, flowers must be planted on a grass or dirt block that either does not have a block any altitude above it to obstruct sun/moonlight, or is lit with at least a light level of 8. If neither of these conditions exist, the flower will quickly pop out. This attribute allows flowers to be used in the creation of light-sensitive mechanisms.

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.

Avoid using give commands to get two tall flowers, as the wrong number can corrupt your map beyond recovery.

Farming
To farm flowers, players need to apply bone meal on a grass block that either does not have any block above it to obstruct sun/moonlight, or is lit with at least a light level of 8. The spawned flower depends on the biome. If the planting conditions are not met, the flower will quickly pop out. Flowers and tall grass will spread naturally over grass blocks up to five blocks radius around.

Data Values
Block 38

Block 175

Trivia

 * Due to the nature of the flowers' spawning algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-spawned flowers in lava, caverns or abandoned mine shafts.
 * Also, it is possible to find a flower dropped as an item on the ground naturally, because it didn't generate on dirt or grass blocks, thus dropping itself.
 * Like other transparent blocks, flowers can break falling objects, like sand.
 * Jeb noted that peony were the flowers that were used for his wedding.
 * Neither roses nor rose bushes apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
 * Cyan flower is the only flower in Minecraft that doesn't produce dye.
 * Strangely, the 1.7.2 update has left Dandelion yellow flowers in their own data value, isolated from the new ones that have since occupied that of the rose.
 * Two-block tall flowers can hide you from mobs since the flowers are as tall as a player is and mobs cannot see through transparent blocks like plants.
 * A glitch in Minecraft 1.7.2 allows duplication of flowers by placing them on a flower pot and then breaking the block under the pot.