19 January 2026

Flower Breeding Chart (& How to Grow Hybrids)

By newsgame


4

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and Sims 4 content for Game Rant.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has dozens of flowers that players can plant all over their island. This will greatly enhance any island’s beauty and increase its rating, so players can get a 5-Star island rating in New Horizons.

new villagers acnh

How to Get New Villagers in Animal Crossing New Horizons

There are various ways to get villagers to move into the player’s island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and some require more effort than othes.

Each island has its own starting flower. However, players can find other species by island hopping or purchasing different seeds. Every flower type has hybrid flowers that can only be obtained by crossbreeding different colored flowers. This guide tells players how they can get each hybrid flower in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

How to Breed Flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

breed flowers acnh

In New Horizons, players will be able to plant flowers of specific colors. They can then breed them by watering until another flower sprouts right next to it. As long as there is space next to a watered flower, it has a chance to breed overnight.

If a flower is by itself, it won’t crossbreed and potentially sprout a different colored flower. It will simply clone itself and produce another equal specimen.

How to Crossbreed Flowers and Get Hybrids in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

acnh crossbreed hybrids

Certain flower combinations will result in the creation of hybrid flowers, which can be different colors from those found within seed packets.

To crossbreed flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, gamers will need two flower colors that are compatible to crossbreed. For there to be crossbreeding in New Horizons, players must place the two flowers next to each other, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, water them, and wait until the next day.

The most efficient way to guarantee that flowers successfully crossbreed and result in the creation of a hybrid is to place them in an X pattern to ensure that more flowers are in contact.

animal-crossing-new-frontier-flower-guide

Flower

Color

How to Get

Cosmo

Orange

Breed a red Cosmo and a yellow Cosmo.

Pink

Breed a red Cosmo and a white Cosmo.

Black

Breed two orange Cosmos.

Mum

Pink

Breed a red Mum and a white Mum.

Purple

Breed a white Mum and a white Mum.

Green

Breed two purple Mums.

Lilly

Orange

Breed a red Lilly and a yellow Lilly.

Pink

Breed a red Lilly and a white Lilly.

Black

Breed a red Lilly and a red Lilly.

Windflower

Pink

Breed a red Windflower and a white Windflower.

Blue

Breed two white Windflowers.

Purple

Breed two blue Windflowers.

Tulip

Orange

Breed a red Tulip and a yellow Tulip.

Pink

Breed a red Tulip and a white Tulip.

Black

Breed two red Tulips.

Purple

Breed two orange Tulips.

Hyacinth

Orange

Breed a red Hyacinth and a yellow Hyacinth.

Pink

Breed a red Hyacinth and a white Hyacinth.

Blue

Breed two white Hyacinths.

Purple

Breed two orange Hyacinths.

Pansy

Orange

Breed a red Pansy and a yellow Pansy.

Blue

Breed two white Pansies.

Hybrid red

Breed a red Pansy and a blue Pansy.

Hybrid orange

Breed an orange Pansy and a blue Pansy.

Purple

Breed two hybrid red Pansies or two hybrid orange Pansies.

Rose

Pink

Breed a red Rose and a white Rose.

Orange

Breed a red Rose and a yellow Rose.

Black

Breed two red Roses.

Purple

Breed two white Roses.

Hybrid red

Breed a white Rose and an orange Rose.

Blue

Breed two hybrid red Roses.

Gold

Breed a black Rose by watering it with a gold watering can.


Animal Crossing New Horizons Tag Page Cover Art

Systems


Released

March 20, 2020

ESRB

Everyone / Comic Mischief, Mild Fantasy Violence, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases

Developer(s)

Nintendo EPD

Publisher(s)

Nintendo