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umbrella plant meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of umbrella plant at MeaningMonkey.org. umbrella plant meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.UMBRELLA PLANT noun
Definition of umbrella plant (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: Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, 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: Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge
Source: Princeton University Wordnet