umbrella plant

Questions about umbrella plant

What does umbrella plant mean?

umbrella plant means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for umbrella plant?

Close synonyms include Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum, Eriogonum allenii, umbrella sedge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is umbrella plant a common word?

umbrella plant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.