The yellow florets are supported by white bracts at the flowerhead.

The more conspicuous part of the inflorescence is the numerous white bracts that surround the actual flowers.

The female, pistillate flowers have white or white-edged bracts.

These have yellow centres surrounded by either white or yellow bracts.

Yellow flowers form on silvery white bracts in spring.

The white bracts are fused at the tips and look like paper lanterns.

They form an inflorescence at the center of four white, petal-like bracts 3-4 cm diameter.

The white bracts spread out or become reflexed with age.

And there they sit, quietly green, occasionally producing a slender stalk with a single white bract - a simple sail.

It sits on top of 3-10 green and white bracts that grow to 10-15 cm long.