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