umbrella plant
n 1: 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 [syn: {umbrella plant}, {Indian rhubarb},
{Darmera peltata}, {Peltiphyllum peltatum}]
2: late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia
having flowers in flat-topped clusters [syn: {umbrella
plant}, {Eriogonum allenii}]
3: African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant
for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike
leaves [syn: {umbrella plant}, {umbrella sedge}, {Cyperus
alternifolius}]