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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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