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