(n)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.Peltiphyllum peltatum, Indian rhubarb, Darmera peltata
(n)African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves, Syn.umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius