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
African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups
buildings for carrying on industrial labor
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
place into a river
