Ground raw materials: baskets are globular, single, small, sometimes 2-3 together, individual peduncles and their fragments with the remains of wrappings, separate sheets of wrappings and tubular flowers, pieces of stems and peduncles, fruits passing through a sieve with a hole size of 7 mm. The color is lemon yellow with orange, greyish-brown, greenish-gray, rarely dark brown patches.
Smell weak fragrant.The taste of water extract is spicy-bitter.