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