umbrella plant   (TTS Sound)

The noun umbrella plant has 3 senses

• umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum -- (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)


• umbrella plant, Eriogonum allenii -- (late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters)


• umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius -- (African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves)