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Darmera
Also called Indian Rhubarb, Umbrella Plants
Darmera peltata, the umbrella plant, is the only species in its genus, a rhizomatous perennial from western North American streamsides that forms large, dramatic umbrella-like leaves. It needs moist soil and some shade to thrive, and it is grown mainly in bog or water-garden settings.
Darmera peltata, the Indian rhubarb or umbrella plant, is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae. It is a slowly spreading rhizomatous perennial native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (western Oregon to northwestern California), growing to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall by 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide. The name Darmera honors Karl Darmer, a 19th-century German horticulturist.
In late spring the flowers emerge before the leaves, with rounded cymes of numerous five-petalled white to bright pink flowers (measuring up to 1.5 cm across each) borne on flower stems up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long. The leaves, up to 60 cm (24 in) long and wide, are peltate, rounded, deeply lobed, coarsely toothed, conspicuously veined and dark green, also on stems petioles up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) height. The leaves turn red in autumn.
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