The article presents the results of a study carried out in the context of color linguistics, the purpose of which is to describe a segment of the color conceptual sphere of the Russian floristic space based on the material of color descriptions of lemon, functioning in the texts of various discourses (lexicographic, prosaic, poetic, advertising etc). The study was polydiscourse in nature and used a set of methods: continuous sampling, descriptive-analytical, contextual, quantitative data processing, and a directed association experiment among others.