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Umbrella plant   /əmbrˈɛlə plænt/   Listen
Umbrella plant

noun
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.  Synonyms: Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum.
2.
Late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters.  Synonym: Eriogonum allenii.
3.
African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves.  Synonyms: Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge.






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Words linked to "Umbrella plant" :   eriogonum, herb, Darmera, genus Peltiphyllum, Cyperus, herbaceous plant, genus Darmera, genus Cyperus, sedge, Peltiphyllum



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