The flowerheads of Cineraria lobata grow in loose clusters at stem-tips. One row of narrow, green bracts that cohere along their margins forms each cup-shaped involucre.
Five to seven oblong, round-tipped yellow, female ray florets spread around a yellow disc comprising numerous bisexual, five-lobed florets. The ray florets are about 5 mm long, spaced irregularly around the disc.
Flowering happens from late winter to spring but this varies across the wide range of the species distribution (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok 2015; Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008; Manning, 2007; Gledhill, 1981; iNaturalist).