Animal Crossing: New Horizons flowers and hybrids guide

Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch has an abundance of flowers, including some new breeds for the franchise.

In this guide we explain how flowers work and what colors you can achieve by crossing and pollinating cosmos, hyacinths, lilies, mums, pansies, roses, tulips and anemones to create unique flowers in blue, pink and even black. .

This is how flowers work in Animal Crossing on Switch

Each player has a native type of flower on their cliffs. These are still available in your store. After Nook’s Cranny is built, more types of flowers will become available for purchase. To get a large selection of these quickly, you might need to go to some friends’ islands or get lucky on a Nook Miles island.

Just like previous Animal Crossing games, you can crossbreed and create unique hybrid colors. The best way to do this is to plant your flowers in a checkerboard pattern, leaving all other spaces open for different plants to pollinate and grow hybrid flowers.

Flowers need water (from the rain or from you and your watering can) to grow and create a hybrid. The watered flowers shine.

When friends from other islands water your flowers, the flowers become more likely to produce offspring. according to data mines by flower researcher Aeter. Aeter also offers a table with some of the most effective methods of growing hybrid flowers, while simplifying our guide for beginners.

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You can pick flowers without completely uprooting the entire plant. Press Y while standing on a flower, you will pick up the flower and regrow the stems. You can use these flowers in a variety of DIY recipes.

Note that some flowers planted next to each other will always make new flowers even if it is not a hybrid color. These hybrid colors are not available for purchase and require crosses to create. Some people will have success finding rare flowers specific to Mystery Island Tours, but we’ve listed the easiest way to reproduce the flowers from scratch below.

There are several ways to get specific colors, but we list the combinations with the highest probability of generating rare colors without using Mystery Island Tours flowers.

All of our combinations below start at seed, which you can buy from Nook’s Cranny or Leif’s Newsstand. Using other flowers from other sources may skew the results.

lily flowers

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• Red + Red = Black
• Yellow + Red = Orange
• Red + White = Pink

roses

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• Red + Red = Black
• Red + White = Pink
• Yellow + Red = Orange
• White + White = Purple
• Purple + Red = Hybrid Rose (Looks the same as the rose you would get from other combinations, but is needed for blue hybrid roses)
• Hybrid Rose + Yellow = Hybrid Red (looks the same as Red but is required for Blue Hybrid Roses)
• Hybrid Red + Hybrid Red = Blue
• Black Roses Watered with Golden Watering Can = Gold (Golden Watering Can is unlocked by reaching 5-star city ranking).

chrysanthemums

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• White + Red = Pink
• White + White = Purple
• Red + Yellow = Hybrid Yellow (looks the same as Yellow but is required for purple hybrid mothers)
• Yellow hybrid + yellow hybrid = purple hybrid (looks identical to purple but is necessary for green mothers)
• Hybrid Purple + Hybrid Purple = Green

Think

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• White + White = Blue
• Yellow + Red = Orange
• Red + Blue = Hybrid Red (looks the same as Red but is needed for Purple Pansies)
• Red Hybrid + Red Hybrid = Purple Hybrid

wind flowers

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• Orange + Red = Pink
• White + White = Blue
• Pink + Blue = Hybrid Red (looks like red but is needed for purple anemones)
• Hybrid Red + Hybrid Red = Purple

hyacinths

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• Red + White = Pink
• White + White = Blue
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Orange + Orange = Purple

cosmos

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• Yellow + Red = Orange
• Red + White = Pink
• Orange + Orange = Black

tulips

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• Red + Red = Black
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + White = Pink
• Orange + Orange = Purple

Update (April 20): Added more information with easier methods to grow certain flowers.

Update (April 27): Added information on how to increase the number of flowers by bringing friends from other islands and watering their plants.