Baskets are globular, single, small, sometimes 2-3 together, individual flower-heads and their pieces with the remains of wrappings, separate leaves of wrapping and tubular flowers, pieces of stems and peduncles, fruits. The color is lemon yellow with orange, greyish-brown, greenish-gray, rarely dark brown patches.
The smell is weak, fragrant. The taste of water extract is spicy-bitter.