umbrella-plant
Nouns
- (n) 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 Sierra Nevada in California Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum,
- (n) late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters Eriogonum allenii,
- (n) African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge,