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Darmera peltata, the Indian rhubarb or umbrella plant, is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd ed, 2013, p 90 It is a slowly spreading rhizomatous perennial plant native plant to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (western Oregon to northwestern California), growing to tall by 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 2m long. The leaves, up to long and wide, (1999). 9780760716427, Barnes & Noble. ISBN 9780760716427 are peltate, rounded, deeply lobed, coarsely toothed, conspicuously veined and dark green, also on stems petioles up to height. The leaves turn red in autumn.
In gardens, Darmera peltata flourishes in pond margins and , where it forms an imposing umbrella-like clump. It is suited to smaller gardens where there is no room for Gunnera manicata or Gunnera tinctoria, distantly related plants that are somewhat similar in appearance, but much larger.
Darmera peltata has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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