Variation
var. tomentosum
This shrub produces lacecap-like cymes that have fertile centre flowers surrounded by sterile flowers. The following berries are red and are persistent on the plant.

Cultivars
'Grandiflorum'
This upright shrub has open branching forming a rounded habit and produces slightly flower heads with pink tinged petals. It is an excellent specimen in a shrub border.

'Lanarth'
This upright shrub has ascending branches with large dark green oval leaves and produces white flower heads with florets up to 45mm (1¾in) wide in early summer. It is planted along borders for screening.

'Mariesii'
This spreading shrub has distinctly layered branching that forms a mounded habit up to 1.5m (5ft) tall by 3m (10ft) wide large ovate dark green leaves turn purplish during winter. During spring it produces flower heads that are held just above the foliage on a peduncle up to 65mm (2½in) long covering the plant. It is used as a lawn specimen or planted on embankments. 

'Pink Beauty'
This shrub has spreading branches that form a rounded-spreading habit. During spring masses of white flowers tinged in pale pink cover the plant. It is excellent in borders for a temperate garden and is used for summer screening.

'Rosace'
Flowers are white and pink and the branches are overlapping. New foliage and autumn colour is bronze.

'Mariesii'
Flowers are large, in creamy white with fertile flowers in the centre and sterile flowers surrounding. It produces red to black berries.