WordNet
n. 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]
late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters [syn: Eriogonum allenii]
African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves [syn: umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius]
Wikipedia
The common name umbrella plant can refer to several unrelated species:
- Cyperus alternifolius (umbrella papyrus)
- Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb)
- Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi (Harper's umbrella plant or Harper's buckwheat)
- Podophyllum peltatum (American Mayapple)
- Schefflera arboricola (umbrella tree)
Usage examples of "umbrella plant".
By the time she had fried the meat and boiled strips of the membranous leaf of the umbrella plant, and also added from cans various exotic foods, she had exchanged at least forty words with him.