2006年4月中旬我带园林班学生到野外活动时,发现岩石上生长着一种花型独特、花色蓝紫色的野生植物(图1),于是采了几株进行驯化栽培(图2)。后来查到这种植物叫牛耳朵 Chinta eburnean Hance,为苦苣苔科唇柱苣苔属植物。它有许多别名:石虎耳、岩青菜、矮白菜等。它属于多年生草本,高15～30厘米。叶基生,叶柄长1～6厘米,肉质,被毛,卵形或狭卵形,先端钝圆,基部狭楔形,叶两面 In mid-April 2006, when I took garden students to the field, I found a unique type of blue-purple wild plant (Fig. 1) on the rock, so several domesticated cultivars were harvested (Fig. 2). Later found this plant called cattle ears Chinta eburnean Hance, Gesneriaceae Labiata genus. It has many aliases: stone tiger ears, rock vegetables, dwarf cabbage and so on. It belongs to perennial herbs, 15-30 cm high. Leaves basal, petiole 1 to 6 cm, succulent, coat, ovate or narrowly ovate, apex obtuse, base narrowly cuneate, both surfaces of leaves