umbrella plant

1. (noun) African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
Synonyms: Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge
Related Words: sedge

2. (noun) late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
Synonyms: Eriogonum allenii
Related Words: eriogonum

3. (noun) rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the California Sierra Nevada
Synonyms: Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum
Related Words: herb, herbaceous plant



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