Noun: umbrella plant- 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
- Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum - Late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- Eriogonum allenii - African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
- umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius
Derived forms: umbrella plants Type of: eriogonum, herb, herbaceous plant, sedge Part of: Cyperus, Darmera, genus Cyperus, genus Darmera, genus Peltiphyllum, Peltiphyllum Encyclopedia: Umbrella plant |