Rare Flower
Even the smell of this flower makes you slightly angry.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 102 crates
- Item ID
- 246
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Rare Flower guides
How to get Rare Flower
Rare Flower is gathered best by Brontosaurus; found in 102 loot crates.
Best gatherers
BrontosaurusLoot crates
102 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Beaver DamAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
Show all 102 crates
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital MediumAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Beaver DamThe Island, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Beaver DenRagnarok · ASE
- Big Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital MediumExtinction · ASA
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Giant Beaver DenRagnarok · ASA
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Large Beaver DamRagnarok · ASA / ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Orbital Drop EasyExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop MediumExtinction · ASE
- Quake Biolum 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Biolum 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Small Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
Rare Flower — Detailed Guide
A flower that angers creatures
The Rare Flower is a plant resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, used in cooking, kibble and taming and as a lure. Its in-game description: "Even the smell of this flower makes you slightly angry." Eating one restores 15 food but gives Rare Flower Pheromones for 10 seconds, which turn nearby wild creatures aggressive, passive ones included. The wiki compares this with the 
Pheromone Dart and the 
Ammonite. It also lures skittish creatures such as the 
Tapejara and 
Phiomia, which can simplify certain tames, and it may stop a 
Purlovia from dismounting you, possibly unintentionally. Some Alpha creatures and the 
Quetzal are not provoked.
Where it grows
The plants that give Rare Flowers hold Berries and Fiber most of the time and a flower only now and then; the rate depends on server settings. The icon is blue, but the source plants can be red, white or blue. Places to look:
- swamps: cattails along the shores, brambles, pitcher plants, and dark brown, curly plants that look like nettles
- bushes with red branches close to mountain tops, and low spiky shrubs where there is snow
- a
Giant Beaver Dam - on Aberration, patches of poison mushrooms
Gathering in bulk
Picking by hand is slow. Creatures that specialize in berries do better: the wiki names the 
Stegosaurus, 
Mammoth, 
Castoroides, 
Triceratops and 
Brontosaurus, and our records list the Brontosaurus as a gatherer. They are generally slow, and with few dense spots they reach at most 1 to 3 plants per swing. The 
Moschops can specialize in Rare Flowers and can be picked up by an 
Argentavis. The wiki rates the 
Therizinosaur as the best method overall, though a Bronto gathers larger amounts. The Therizinosaur collects flowers with its fiber-gathering attack rather than its bite or main claw swipes, and swamp shores thick with cattails are a good place to use it.
What it goes into
Our records count 5 recipes in ASA and 7 in ASE. Both games share these amounts:
Mindwipe Tonic: 20
Lesser Antidote: 10
Battle Tartare: 2
Re-Fertilizer and 
Exceptional Kibble: 1 each
ASE adds the 
Exceptional Augmented Kibble with 2 and the Alchemy Table with 1. The wiki adds that the flower is used to tame the 
Giant Bee, Moschops, 
Lystrosaurus and 
Microraptor.
Spoilage, weight and loot
A Rare Flower spoils after 72 hours, which is 3 days. One weighs 0.15 and a full stack of 100 weighs 15. Loot is another source: 102 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Green crates. Our records list it on 9 maps.