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.

synonyms: Darmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum.

Polish: tarczownica tarczowata

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

synonym: Eriogonum allenii.

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

synonyms: Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge.

Polish: papirusik, cibora zmienna, cibora przemiennolistna