中州名貴中藥材。別名九九花、看燈花、款花、虎須，系菊科植物款冬的花蕾。其主要成份含款冬二醇等甾醇類、蕓香甙、全絲桃甙、二萜皂甙、鞣質、蠟、揮發油和蒲公英黃質等。味辛性溫，有潤肺止咳、消痰下氣功能。是嵩縣地道名貴藥材之一。清末車村一行樹葛條凹藥農趙文彬，將野生冬花移栽成功后，車村的一行樹、龍王廟，木植街的蟬堤、簡池、石滾平等地，普遍進行人工種植，產品色澤紅瑩，花蕾充實，氣味清香，藥味濃，效果好，經臨床實驗療效良好，聲譽甚佳，獲“嵩冬花”之稱。建國后由于醫藥事業發展迅速，冬花種植由南向北擴大。大章鄉東溝村正常年景可交售冬花數萬公斤，質優量多，成了嵩縣冬花的主要產區，群眾稱為 “冬花之鄉”。冬花逐漸成為嵩縣農村主要經濟收入之廠。



    Songxian Flos Farfarae, with other names of Tiger's Whiskers and Common Coltsfoot, is a rare and precious medical material. It is actually flower of coltsfoot which belongs to compositae. Its nature is warm and pungent and has medical functions of nourishing lungs, relieving a cough, dissolving phlegm. This plant was transplanted successfully at the end of Qing Dynasty. Later it proves very good clinical trial effects so that it earns a goof reputation. After 1949, it is spread from the South to the North, and Donggou Village becomes a major producing area, which is called the hometown of songxian flos farfae. This medical plant has become the main source of economic income for rural places in Songxian Town gradually.