1. (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

• darmera peltata
• indian rhubarb
• peltiphyllum peltatum

2. (noun) late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

• eriogonum allenii

3. (noun) African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

• cyperus alternifolius
• umbrella sedge

1. (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

• darmera
• genus darmera
• genus peltiphyllum
• peltiphyllum

2. (noun) African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

• cyperus
• genus cyperus

1. (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

• herb
• herbaceous plant

2. (noun) late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

• eriogonum

3. (noun) African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

• sedge