Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun umbrella_plant

3 senses of umbrella plant

Sense 1
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)
       => herb, herbaceous plant -- (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Sense 2
umbrella plant, Eriogonum allenii -- (late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters)
       => eriogonum -- (any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers)

Sense 3
umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius -- (African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves)
       => sedge -- (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)