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