umbrella plant

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umbrella plant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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
         ]