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umbrella plant

noun /əmbrɛləplænt/ 3 syllables 14 letters Scrabble 19 WWF 27
Definitions
noun

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

noun

African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

noun

late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

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