There are a lot of plants in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that prove to be very useful. Many of these plants are not just here to help you gain more health, but some also give you special characteristics and defenses that help you survive in the harshest environments.

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The Warm Safflina is a flower that can be incredibly useful. On its own in dishes, it will give you a Cold Resistance for 2:30 per piece you use, and then once you can start using the Great Fairies to enhance your armor, the flower will be a necessary ingredient to upgrade your Snowquill Armor to help you in the frozen environments around Hyrule.

Updated by Shane Black on June 30th, 2023: This guide was updated to give more detail about where players can find Great Fairies across the map, as well as added more links in the text to relevant guides and articles. Also padded out some additional details to help make it more informative and helpful.

Where To Find Warm Safflina

While you can stumble upon this flower in a lot of places around the game's map, you can specifically look for it in two places:

1. The northwest slopes of Death Mountain
2. Near the Southern Oasis in the Gerudo Desert

If you are looking for it near Death Mountain, you can start from the Mayak Shrine and start heading up the mountain on the East Deplian Badlands. You will find a handful of these along the slope, and even better: you won't need to worry about the weather like you will if you go into the Gerudo Desert.

However, if you do want to go scavenging in the scorching heat of the Gerudo Desert, first, remember to wear the appropriate attire to deal with the heat, and then travel to the Karahatag Shrine and drop down to where the Shrine is sitting on the sand. Here, you will find a good amount of Warm Safflina. It is also important to note that you could find the Warm Safflina elsewhere in the desert as well; this is just the place where it grows the most and where you are guaranteed to find some.

Again, you can find these flowers in other locations, but when they are guaranteed to be growing in abundance in these two locations, what's the use in looking? Just stick to these two places whenever you need a Warm Safflina and you will be good to go. Now get cooking or upgrading!

Recipes Using Warm Safflina

There are roughly 10 recipes that you can use Warm Safflina in, and each one will give you a boost to your Cold Resistance. Each of these recipes can be used with any ingredients, however, adding in a Warm Safflina will be what gives you that Cold Resistance bump.

The recipes you can use with Warm Safflina are as follows:

1. Steamed Fruit (Warm Safflina + Any Fruit)
2. Steamed Meat (Warm Safflina + Any Meat)
3. Fried Wild Greens (Warm Safflina + Any Vegetable)
4. Glazed Veggies (Warm Safflina + Courser Bee Honey)
5. Herb Saute (Warm Safflina + Goron Spice)
6. Salt-Grilled Greens (Warm Safflina + Rock Salt)
7. Steamed Tomatoes (Warm Safflina + Hylian Tomato)
8. Cheesy Risotto (Warm Safflina + Any Fish + Any Mushroom + Hateno Cheese + Hylian Rice + Rock Salt)
9. Cheesy Omelette (Warm Safflina + Any Mushroom + Hateno Cheese + Bird Egg + Rock Salt)
10. Veggie Porridge (Warm Safflina + Hylian Rice + Fresh Milk)

Armor Upgraded With Warm Safflina

You can guess what kind of armor you can upgrade with Warm Safflina given its benefits and boosts: the Snowquill Armor Set. This cold-stopping armor set can be purchased at the Brazen Beak at Rito Village.

With the armor in-hand, you can now take it to a Great Fairy, and she will help you start your upgrades.

There is only one level for each piece of armor that will need Warm Safflina, and it is the following:

You can find four Great Fairies all across Hyrule, and each one will be able to help you upgrade your armor if you want to go that route:

1. Great Fairy Tera - near the Woodland Stable
2. Great Fairy Mija - near the Snowfieldd Stables
3. Great Fairy Kaysa - near the Outskirt Stable
4. Great Fairy Cotera - near the Dueling Peaks Stable

You can spot them by their giant, green bulb sticking out of the ground with some colorful smoke and other things surrounding it. They are really hard to miss.

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