Animal Crossing: Every Flower Type & How To Get Them

Decorating comes in many forms when playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. By collecting different household items such as chairs, beds, dressers, and even TVs, players can perfect their Animal Crossing home designs. However, there are other ways to make an island town beautiful. This includes fruit trees, outdoor decorations, and a large variety of flowers. Collecting every kind of flower in each color variation can be an undertaking for an Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan, and can take a great deal of time to accomplish.

Currently, there are 8 different types of flowers available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. These include Lilies, Cosmos, Tulips, Mums, Hyacinths, Windflowers, Pansies, and Roses. Each flower type comes in a variety of colors. Every Animal Crossing island spawns with a primary and secondary flower type. The primary flower type is the flower players find actively growing on their home islands, and the secondary is the flower type always found during Mystery Island tours, as well as in seed packs sold at Nook’s Cranny or Leif’s Flower Shop. To gather the other flower types, players will need to travel to a friends’ islands and visit their stores, or hope to stumble on rare flowers while visiting Mystery Islands.

While finding every flower type can be achieved through travel, gathering every color won’t be as simple. Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ flowers each have between 6 and 9 colors to collect, but many of the hues require flower breeding. Flower breeding requires dedication and strategy to obtain special color options like the Blue Roses or Purple Pansies. Flowers come in two breeding types: The Seed Pack flower, and the Hybrid Flower. Seed pack flowers can be purchased at Nook’s Cranny. To obtain Hybrid flowers, Seed Pack flowers must be bred. However, breeding requires a special planting pattern, otherwise, the flowers will clone instead of reproducing as hybrids, leading to a large number of the same color of flowers taking over the island.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Flower Breeding Setup

To successfully breed Animal Crossing: New Horizons flower colors, players will want to create special flower gardens. The flower colors planted will change based on what color the player is breeding for. The two most commonly used types of breeding gardens are the checkerboard and the diamond patterns. This allows the flowers to be touching at the corners but creates gaps for the new flowers to grow. According to information provided by Paleh’s ACNH Flower Genetics Guide, there are other types of planting methods that can be used, but the 5X5 checkerboard can be the easiest when learning flower breeding.

Breeding flowers is a complex task for Animal Crossing fans because flowers have genetic traits in the game. The flowers players can grow with seeds are genetically unable to produce certain offspring colors, as where hybrids possess the genetic information that allows new colors to spawn. However, growing these colors won’t require a degree in biology or complicated Punnett square charts. Thanks to information compiled by the community, breeding is much less frustrating than it could be.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Lily Breeding Guide

Lilies come in 6 different color variations. These include red, white, yellow, black, pink, and orange. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Lily (seed pack) x Yellow Lily (seed pack) = Chance of orange hybrid Lilies
• Red Lily (seed pack) x Red Lily (seed pack) = Chance of black hybrid Lilies.
• Red Lily (seed pack) x Red Lily (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Lilies.
• Red Lily (seed pack) x White Lily (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Lilies

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Hyacinth Breeding Guide

Hyacinths come in 7 different color variations. These colors include red, white, orange, yellow, pink, blue, and purple. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Hyacinth (seed pack) x White Hyacinth (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Hyacinths.
• Red Hyacinth (seed pack) x Yellow Hyacinth (seed pack) = Chance of orange hybrid Hyacinths.
• White Hyacinth (seed pack) x White Hyacinth (seed pack) = Chance of blue hybrid Hyacinths.
• Orange Hyacinth (hybrid) x Orange Hyacinth (hybrid) = Chance of purple or special blue hybrid Hyacinths.
• Special Blue Hyacinth (hybrid) x Special Blue Hyacinth (hybrid) = Chance of purple hybrid Hyacinth.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cosmos Breeding Guide

Cosmos come in 6 different color variations. These colors include red, white, yellow, pink, orange, and black. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Cosmos (seed pack) x White Cosmos (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Cosmos.
• Red Cosmos (seed pack) x Yellow Cosmos (seed pack) = Chance of orange hybrid Cosmos.
• Orange Cosmos (hybrid) x Orange Cosmos (hybrid) = Chance of black hybrid Cosmos (rare).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Mums Breeding Guide

Mums come in 6 different color variations. These colors include red, white, yellow, pink, green, and purple. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Mum (seed pack) x White Mum (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Mums.
• White Mum (seed pack) x White Mum (seed pack) = Chance of purple hybrid Mums.
• Red Mum (seed pack) x Yellow Mum (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid yellow Mums.
• Yellow Mum (hybrid) x Yellow Mum (hybrid) = Chance of hybrid green Mums (rare) or special hybrid purple Mums (25%).
• Special Purple Mum (hybrid) x Special Purple Mum (hybrid) = Chance of hybrid green Mums (25%).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Pansies Breeding Guide

Pansies come in 6 different color variations. These colors include red, yellow, orange, white, blue, and purple. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Pansy (seed pack) x Yellow Pansy = Chance of orange hybrid Pansies.
• White Pansy (seed pack) x White Pansy (seed pack) = Chance of blue hybrid Pansies.
• Red Pansy (seed pack) x Blue Pansy (hybrid) = Chance of red hybrid Pansies.
• Red Pansy (hybrid) x Red Pansy (hybrid) = Chance of purple hybrid Pansies (rare).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Tulips Breeding Guide

Tulips come in 7 different color variations. These colors include red, yellow, orange, white, pink, black, and purple. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Tulip (seed pack) x White Tulip (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Tulips.
• Red Tulip (seed pack) x Yellow Tulip (seed pack) = Chance of orange hybrid Tulips.
• Red Tulip (seed pack) x Red Tulip (seed pack) = Chance of black hybrid Tulips.
• Orange Tulip (hybrid) x Orange Tulip (hybrid) = Chance of purple hybrid Tulips (rare).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Windflowers Breeding Guide

Tulips come in 6 different color variations. These colors include red, orange, white, pink, blue, and purple. Below is the breeding information for each flower color.

• Red Windflower (seed pack) x Orange Windflower (seed pack) = Chance of pink hybrid Windflowers.
• White Windflower (seed pack) x White Windflower (seed pack) = Chance of blue hybrid Windflowers.
• Red Windflower (seed pack) x Blue Windflower (hybrid) = Chance of hybrid red Windflowers (100%).
• Pink Windflower (hybrid) x Blue Windflower (hybrid) = Change of hybrid red Windflowers (25%) and special hybrid pink Windflowers  (25%).
• Red Windflower (hybrid) x Red Windflower (hybrid) = Chance of special hybrid blue Windflowers.
• Special Blue Windflower (hybrid) x Special Blue Windflower (hybrid) = Change of hybrid purple Windflowers.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Roses Breeding Guide

Breeding roses is the most complicated of all Animal Crossing: New Horizons flower types. Roses come in 9 different color variations, including red, white, pink, orange, yellow, black, purple, blue, and gold. Golden Roses can be obtained by watering Black Roses with a Golden Watering Can. Blue Roses are the most difficult flower to get in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and there are many methods currently being used. The method listed for Blue Roses in this guide is the easiest to accomplish, but not the version with the highest odds. The other colors are much less difficult to obtain.

• Red Rose (seed pack) x White Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid pink Roses.
• Red Rose (seed pack) x Yellow Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid orange Roses.
• Red Rose (seed pack) x Red Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid black or pink Roses.
• White Rose (seed pack) x White Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid purple Roses.
• Black Rose (hybrid) x Yellow Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid orange Roses (100%).

Blue Rose method:

• White Rose (seed pack) x White Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid purple Roses.
• Red Rose (seed pack) x Red Rose (seed pack) = Chance of hybrid black Roses.
• Back Rose (hybrid) x Purple Rose (hybrid) = Chance of special red hybrid Roses.
• Special Red Rose (hybrid) x Special Red Rose (hybrid) = Chance of hybrid red Roses.
• Red Rose (hybrid) x Red Rose (hybrid) = Chance of hybrid blue Roses (1.6%)

Source: Paleh’s ACNH Flower Genetics Guide