umbrella plant

Noun	1.	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 Synonyms: Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum
	2.	umbrella plant - late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters Synonyms: Eriogonum allenii
	3.	umbrella plant - African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves Synonyms: Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge

Darmera, Darmera peltata, genus Darmera, genus Peltiphyllum, herb, herbaceous plant, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum, Peltiphyllum peltatum