umbrella plant

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Definition of umbrella plant in English English dictionary: 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; African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters 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; late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters; African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves; (Botanik, Bitkibilim) zyperngras