Lily of the Valley

A lily of the valley is a flower often found in forested biomes that can be crafted into white dye and suspicious stew.

A lily of the valley can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A lily of the valley also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Lilies of the valley generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks in forest, flower forest, birch forest, old growth birch forest, and dark forest biomes as part of vegetation features. In flower forests, they generate both in random patches and as part of the flower gradient in Java Edition, and only as part of the gradient in Bedrock Edition. Lillies of the valley can also generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in a flower forest biome, lilies of the valley have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 15×5×15 area, depending entirely on the flower gradient. Lilies of the valley cannot be regrown in areas where they generated naturally as part of a random patch,^[1] nor in other biomes where it generates naturally.^[2]

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in a forest, flower forest, birch forest, old growth birch forest, or dark forest biome, lilies of the valley have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 7×5×7 area. In flower forests, lilies of the valley can generate only in specific locations depending on the flower gradient.

When bone meal is applied to a lily of the valley in any biome, more lilies of the valley appear on top of nearby grass blocks. The flowers can appear up to 3 blocks away from the original, forming a 7×7 square.

In Java Edition, endermen can pick up lilies of the valley, like any other one-block-tall flower, and drop it if killed while holding it.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 lily of the valley when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Wandering traders may sell a lily of the valley for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	7%	7%	Emerald	Lily of the Valley	7	—	—

Like other flowers, lilies of the valley can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots.

Lilies of the valley can also be placed in flower pots.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Suspicious Stew	Any Mushroom + Bowl + Lily of the Valley		​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Lily of the Valley		​[until: Third Drop 2026]
White Dye	Lily of the Valley

Suspicious stew that is created using a lily of the valley imparts the Poison effect for 11 seconds, dealing 8HP damage. It can be crafted using a lily of the valley or produced by feeding a lily of the valley to a brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Lily of the Valley

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

Lilies of the valley can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees.

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a lily of the valley have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Placing a lily of the valley into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of lilies of the valley yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Java Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.grass	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Lily of the Valley	lily_of_the_valley	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.lily_of_the_valley

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Lily of the Valley	lily_of_the_valley	red_flower / 10	1094	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -839)	tile.red_flower.lilyOfTheValley.name

Bedrock Edition

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
flower_type	0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8	poppy	poppy	0	Poppy
			orchid	1	Blue Orchid
			allium	2	Allium
			houstonia	3	Azure Bluet
			tulip_red	4	Red Tulip
			tulip_orange	5	Orange Tulip
			tulip_white	6	White Tulip
			tulip_pink	7	Pink Tulip
			oxeye	8	Oxeye Daisy
			cornflower	9	Cornflower
			lily_of_the_valley	10	Lily of the Valley

Java Edition
1.14			18w43a				Added lilies of the valley.
							When updating to 1.14, the flower gradient is updated for all flower forests. This means that it is possible to find lilies of the valley in flower forests that were generated prior to 1.14 by applying bone meal on grass blocks.
			19w03a				Placing a lily of the valley into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Lilies of the valley now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell lilies of the valley.
1.15			19w34a				Lilies of the valley can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate lilies of the valley.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3			snap1				Lillies of the valley can now generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests.

Bedrock Edition
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.0				Added lilies of the valley.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Lilies of the valley can now be sold by the wandering trader.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Lilies of the valley can be used to fill a composter.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				Applying bone meal to a lily of the valley now creates other lilies of the valley instead of dandelions and poppies.
			beta 1.13.0.9				Lilies of the valley can now be used to make suspicious stew, giving it the Poison effect.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Lilies of the valley can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate lilies of the valley.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Lilies of the valley no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[3]
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Lillies of the valley can now generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

PlayStation 4 Edition
1.88							Added lilies of the valley.

Bedrock Edition
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.23				The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues relating to "Lily of the Valley" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In real life, lillies of the valley belong to the family Asparagaceae. They are highly poisonous if consumed due to the concentration of cardiac glycosides, something that is reflected with suspicious stews made from it.