Noun Definition

umbrella plant

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

Related Noun(s):cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge

Category: Plants

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

Related Noun(s):eriogonum allenii

Category: Plants

3.Definition: 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

Related Noun(s):darmera peltata, indian rhubarb, peltiphyllum peltatum

Category: Plants