Leafy, rounded shrub, resprouting from a woody rootstock. Leaves are stalkless, overlapping, triangular or lance-shaped and 2-3mm long, closely packed together; large globular, cream flowerheads are 10mm in diameter, the long stamens giving the flowers a striking fluffy appearance; flowers are arranged in loose globular clusters at the ends of branches; the large globular grey-brown seedheads are most usually seen, the flowers are fleeting!

After Cornelius Brun, apothecary who travelled in Russia and the Lavant.