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Flowers
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Flowers in the Animal Crossing series are small clusters of brightly colored flowers that live throughout all four seasons. They can be bought from Tom Nook's stores, Timmy and Tommy's stores, or Leif's Garden Shop, are grown by villagers, and grow randomly around the town. They can be watered with a watering can to breed them, which can produce hybrid flowers, and, before Animal Crossing: New Horizons, they will wilt if not watered. In the first-generation games, flowers cannot breed or wilt.

Additionally, flowers cannot be picked up in Doubutsu no Mori or Animal Crossing unlike in later games, so they cannot be sold or worn. In Doubutsu no Mori e+, flowers can be picked, but it will result in the flower being destroyed and the player will be holding the flower in their hands after being picked. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, flowers now take a few days to grow, and can now be plucked from the flower plants to be used as crafting materials, with new flower heads growing in a few days.

Flower basics

There are four common types of flowers: roses, cosmos, tulips, and pansies. Animal Crossing: New Leaf introduced two new flowers, lilies and violets, both of which can be either bought from Leif's Gardening Store or found on various islands during tours. Animal Crossing: New Horizons introduced a further three flowers, windflowers, mums, and hyacinths, while removing violets. Various combinations of flowers can be bred to form new colors, such as the yellow and red pansies, which can create an orange pansy.

Wilting can occur to flowers in games before Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Each day, if it has not rained or snowed the day before, there is a chance for a non-watered flower to wilt at 6 AM, turning a brown color. They can be revived by being watered with a watering can on the same day that they wilt, and will return to normal the following day. Watering flowers that have not wilted yet prevents the flower from wilting the next day. This wilting process applies to all flowers except the golden rose, dandelion, and dandelion puffs. Flowers that have been watered show shiny petals and sparkle in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Some insects, such as snails, appear on flowers.

In New Leaf, flowers grow in groups of four, unlike in previous games and New Horizons where they grow in groups of three. The ability to wear flowers in the hair of a player, which was introduced in Wild World, also reappears, again taking the place of a hat. Hybridization remains a feature for flowers.

In later games, flowers, unless they are wilted, can be picked up as with any item. They can also be displayed in the player's house or, since Animal Crossing: Wild World, be worn on the player's hair. A flower worn this way will take the place of a hat. The rose, however, is held between the teeth and will take the place of an accessory or helmet.

Flowers can be destroyed in some ways. If the player runs through one of the bunches, there is a 30% chance that the flowers will be destroyed. If the player attempts to pick up a wilted flower, the player plucks it instead, removing it. The player can also use a shovel to dig where the flower is, destroying it.

In New Horizons, flowers have been completely overhauled. Planting a flower seed will result in the appearance of small leaves referred to as sprouts on the ground indicating the first stage of growth. The next day, the flowers will appear as stems and the following day they will appear as buds, before finally blooming on the third day after planting. The player can pluck the blossoms (except for lily of the valley), which can then be used as a crafting material, worn on the player as an accessory, or placed as a single stem flower in a vase. Plucking the blossoms will revert the flowers to the stems growth stage. Running over the flowers also has a chance of destroying the blossoms, reducing them to the buds stage. At any growth stage, the player can dig up the flowers with the shovel and replant them. Flowers no longer wilt, but they still must be watered to hybridize. Hybrids and other new flowers will appear each morning in the buds growth stage. The flower plants cannot be sent through the mail, but the blossoms can.

List of flowers

Regular flowers

Image	Type	Description	Possible colors
	Rose	Roses can be planted with rose bags, which can be bought from the Nook family stores or Leif's store. They appear in Animal Crossing: Wild World onward. Red, white, and yellow are the default roses, while others can only be obtained by hybridization.
	Cosmos	Cosmos can be planted with cosmos bags, which can be bought from the Nook family stores or Leif's store. They appear in every game. Red, white, and yellow are the default cosmos in Animal Crossing: Wild World onward, while others can only be obtained by hybridization. In Doubutsu no Mori e+ and prior, the cosmos were only blue, pink, or yellow. Blue cosmos are the only flowers to not appear in any games since Doubutsu no Mori e+.
	Tulip	Tulips can be planted with tulip bags, which can be bought from the Nook family stores or Leif's store. They appear in every game. Red, white, and yellow are default tulips in Animal Crossing: Wild World onward, while others can only be obtained by hybridization. These three were also the only color available in Doubutsu no Mori e+ and prior.
	Pansy	Pansies can be planted with pansy bags, which can be bought from the Nook family stores or Leif's store. They appear in every game. Red, white, and yellow are default pansies in Animal Crossing: Wild World onward, while others can only be obtained by hybridization. Purple, white, and yellow were the only ones available in Doubutsu no Mori e+ and prior.
	Lily	Lilies can be planted with lily bags, which can be bought from Leif's store or Nook's Cranny. They appear in Animal Crossing: New Leaf onward. Red, white, and yellow are default lilies, while others can only be obtained by hybridization.
	Violet	Violets can be planted with violet bags, which can be bought from Leif's store. They only appear in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Purple, white, and yellow are default violets, while blue ones can only be obtained by hybridization.
	Hyacinth	Hyacinths can be planted with hyacinth bags, which can be bought from Nook's Cranny. They first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Red, white, and yellow are default hyacinths, while others can only be obtained by hybridization.
	Mum	Mums can be planted with mum bags, which can be bought from Nook's Cranny. They first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Red, white, and yellow are default mums, while others can only be obtained by hybridization. They are notably the only flower species with a green hybrid.
	Windflower	Windflowers can be planted with windflower bags, which can be bought from Nook's Cranny. They first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Red, white, and orange are default windflowers, while others can only be obtained by hybridization. This makes the windflowers the only flowers for which orange is a default color rather than a hybrid.

Special flowers

For flowers that appear during the garden events in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, see Garden event

Image	Type	Description
	Lily of the valley	While this flower cannot be bought in a bag, these flowers appear next to the cliffs only when the town has a perfect Environment Rating. These flowers appear in Doubutsu no Mori e+ onward. Until Happy Home Designer, these flowers were mistakenly called Jacob's Ladder, in spite of neither flower looking anything like the other. This was a translation error: they are correctly called すずらん (suzuran, the Japanese name for lilies of the valley) in the Japanese versions. The in-game files also call these flowers lilies, and the furniture award from Weeding Day resembling this flower is called the Lily Lamp.
	Carnation	Carnations can be obtained in Animal Crossing: City Folk, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. There are three colors—pink is obtained from the player's mother on Mother's Day (May 10th), red is obtained from the player's father on Father's Day (June 21st), and white is created as a hybrid of the two.
	Gold rose	Gold roses are flowers that first appeared in Animal Crossing: Wild World. They can be made only by watering a wilted black rose with the golden can. The wilted black rose will turn into a gold rose the next day. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, black roses do not turn into gold roses, as they no longer wilt, but instead produce gold offspring. Just like dandelions, gold roses will never wilt, but gold roses also never disappear from the town, unlike dandelions, which turn into dandelion puffs.
	Dandelion	Dandelions appear randomly around the town and are essentially classed as a weed in the real world, despite not affecting the town's environment since they count as a flower rather than a weed. They appear just like their real-life counterparts and look like a brighter version of a yellow cosmos, with thinner, fuller petals and heavier leaves. After a couple of days, a dandelion will turn into a dandelion puff (unless it is winter, in which they will stay as flowers until spring arrives). Dandelions cannot wilt.
	Dandelion puff	The dandelion puff can be grown only when a normal dandelion is left for a certain space of time. The dandelion puff is the stage of a dandelion that has gone to seed, it is a collection of seeds with white parasols just like their real-life counterpart. This item, when held, can be blown by the player, hence the name "puff." When blown, the seeds float away and disappear into nothing. In City Folk, the parasols are much more realistic, complete with seeds. Dandelions turn into dandelion puffs after a couple of days, then the dandelion puff will disappear from the town after a couple of days has passed. Just like their flower stage, dandelion puffs cannot wilt.
	Rafflesia	The rafflesia is a large red plant that grows in the player's town after a large number of weeds accumulate. Once this plant appears in town, it means that the town is at the lowest rank. In real life, the plant is notorious for its smell, which, in the game, is reflected by the presence of flies. After the removal of the weeds, the rafflesia will wilt, and then disappear. If the player wants to remove the weeds, they should talk to Wisp the ghost and bring back all five spirits. Ridding the town of weeds is one of three choices as a reward. In many ways, it is the polar opposite of the lily of the valley.
	Clover	Clovers grow frequently and are generally treated as weeds, disappearing after being pulled. However, the four-leafed clover grows very infrequently and is placed in the player's inventory. It can be planted again like regular flowers. It has been known to affect luck and can be worn in the hair or placed as furniture in the player's house, used as a bookmark.

Hybridization

Hybrids can be obtained from Wild World onwards. In Animal Crossing, hybrids can be bought from Tom Nook's, but cannot be bred. However, the blue cosmos cannot be obtained by any means, even through breeding in Wild World or later, since it only exists in Doubutsu no Mori e+ and earlier.

If two different specimens of the same species are planted next to each other, on the next morning, there is a chance they will interact and create a new flower in one of the spaces next to either of the parents. For example, red tulips and white tulips can produce pink tulips.

In Wild World and City Folk

Color 1	Color 2	Possible offsprings
Roses
Cosmos
Tulips
Pansies
Carnations

In New Leaf

Hybrid flowers in Animal Crossing: New Leaf have a much different breeding pattern than the previous Animal Crossing games in the series.

Some colors of hybrid flowers require breeding with a certain hybrid color and then breeding them again with those specific colors from their specific parents. As such, a blue rose for instance can only be obtained by breeding a purple rose with orange rose to get a special red rose, then breeding two special red roses to get a blue rose.

It is impossible to tell the difference between ordinary breeding flowers and specially breeding flowers since they have the same name and appearance as ordinary breeding flowers.

- A color that has been bred from a specific parent.

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Cosmos

Tulips

Pansies

Lilies

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Violets

Carnations

In New Horizons

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, five types of flowers (cosmos, pansies, lilies, tulips, and roses) return from previous games, along with three new types: hyacinths, windflowers, and mums (short for chrysanthemums). Compared to previous games, hybrids in New Horizons now feature a genotype system with each specific color having a different gene. For this instance, blue roses require massive preparation to produce, requiring the player to breed different pairs of roses.

Watering cans now functions to increase the hybridization of each flower as well as increase the chances of an offspring being produced. Up to five visitors can water a flower to increase the chances to produce an offspring. Digging up flowers can undo the effects of a watering can.

Watering can rates

Visitors	Production chances
0	5%
1	25%
2	35%
3	50%
4	65%
5+	80%

List of flower genes

These are the list of available flower genes for each flower.

Flowers		Genes
Windflowers
	Red windflower	100 101 200 201 210 211
	White windflower	000 001
	Orange windflower	120 121 122 010 011 020 021 022
	Pink windflower	110 111 112 220 221
	Blue windflower	102 002 012
	Purple windflower	202 212 222
Pansies
	Red pansy	100 101 200 201 210 211
	White pansy	000 001
	Yellow pansy	120 121 122 010 011 020 021 022
	Orange pansy	110 111 112 220 221
	Blue pansy	102 002 012
	Purple pansy	202 212 222
Hyacinths
	Red hyacinth	100 200 201 202 211 212
	White hyacinth	102 000 001 012
	Yellow hyacinth	111 112 121 122 010 011 020 021 022
	Orange hyacinth	110 120
	Pink hyacinth	101
	Blue hyacinth	210 002
	Purple hyacinth	220 221 222
Cosmos
	Red cosmos	200 201 202 212 222
	White cosmos	000 001 002 012
	Yellow cosmos	010 011 020 021 022
	Pink cosmos	100 101 102 112
	Orange cosmos	110 111 120 121 122 210 211
	Black cosmos	220 221
Roses
	Red rose	1000 1010 1020 1110 1120 1220 2001 2011 2021 2110 2111 2121 2221
	White rose	1002 1012 1112 1222 2112 2222 0000 0001 0002 0010 0011 0012 0110 0111 0112 0220 0221 0222
	Yellow rose	1101 1102 1201 1202 1211 1212 2102 2202 2212 0100 0101 0102 0200 0201 0202 0210 0211 0212
	Orange rose	1100 1200 1210 2100 2101 2200 2201 2210 2211
	Pink rose	1001 1011 1021 1111 1121 1221 2002 2012 2022
	Purple rose	1022 1122 2122 0020 0021 0022 0120 0121 0122
	Black rose	2000 2010 2020 2120
	Blue rose	2220
Lilies
	Red lily	100 201 211
	White lily	102 222 000 001 002 011 012 022
	Yellow lily	111 112 121 122 010 020 021
	Pink lily	101 202 212
	Orange lily	110 120 220 221
	Black lily	200 210
Tulips
	Red tulip	100 201 202 211 212
	White tulip	102 000 001 002 012
	Yellow tulip	111 112 121 122 010 011 020 021 022
	Pink tulip	101
	Orange tulip	110 120
	Black tulip	200 210
	Purple tulip	220 221 222
Mums
	Red mum	111 200 201 202 212 222
	White mum	000 001 012
	Yellow mum	110 010 011 020 021 022
	Pink mum	100 101 102 112
	Purple mum	120 121 122 210 211 002
	Green mum	220 221

Flower paths

The number below each flower represent the specific genes (indicated by a number) required to breed these flowers. Some flowers have a special marking () that indicate that they are from flower bags.

Windflower
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
200	020	110	100%
001	001	002	25%
200	002	101	100%
101	101	202	6.25%

Pansy
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
200	020	110	100%
001	001	002	25%
200	002	101	100%
101	101	202	6.25%

Hyacinth
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
201	020	110	50%
201	001	101	50%
001	001	002	25%
110	110	210	12.5%
		220	6.25%
210	210	220	25%

Cosmos
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
200	021	110 111	100%
200	001	100 101	100%
110 111	110 111	220 221	5.86%

Rose
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
2001	2001	2002	25%
		2000	25%
2001	0010	1001 1011	50%
2001	0200	1100	50%
0010	0010	0020	25%
0020	2001	1011	50%
1011	0200	1110	12.5%
1110	1110	2220	1.56%

Lily
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
201	201	200	25%
		202	25%
201	020	110	50%
201	002	101	50%

Tulip
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
201	201	200	25%
201	002	101	50%
201	020	110	50%
110	110	220	6.25%

Mum
Flower 1	Flower 2	Offspring	Chances
200	001	100 101	100%
200	020	110	100%
001	001	002	25%
110	110	120 210	25%
		220	6.25%
120 210	120 210	220	25%

Special flowers

Flower	Conditions	Offspring (if possible)
Black rose	Golden watering can	Gold rose
Lily of the valley	When island rating is five for more than 1 day

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  All flower types in Animal Crossing: City Folk

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  Wearing red roses as an accessory (Animal Crossing: City Folk)

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  Gold roses (Animal Crossing: City Folk)

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  Yellow pansies flower field (Animal Crossing: New Leaf)

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  Cluster of flowers (Animal Crossing: New Leaf)

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  Every breedable flower type and color in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, excluding gold roses

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  A book on flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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  A flower book page in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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