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umbrella plant

n.

1. A widely cultivated, ornamental, robust sedge (Cyperus alternifolius) native to Madagascar and Mauritius, having long triangular leafless stems, a terminal umbrellalike cluster of grasslike leaves, and a compound umbel of spikelets with drooping rays.

2. Midland U.S. The May apple.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	umbrella plant - 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 herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests Darmera, genus Darmera, genus Peltiphyllum, Peltiphyllum - one species
	2.	umbrella plant - late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters Eriogonum allenii eriogonum - any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers
	3.	umbrella plant - African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge sedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers Cyperus, genus Cyperus - type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions