Search Result for "umbrella_plant":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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;
[syn: umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum]

2. late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters;
[syn: umbrella plant, Eriogonum allenii]

3. African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves;
[syn: umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

umbrella plant n 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 [syn: umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum] 2: late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters [syn: umbrella plant, Eriogonum allenii] 3: African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves [syn: umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius]