Synonyms for umbrella-plant

Noun

1. umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum, herb, herbaceous plant

usage: 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

2. umbrella plant, Eriogonum allenii, eriogonum

usage: late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

3. umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius, sedge

usage: African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves