purple sage
Americannoun
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A landscaper loosens the roots on a purple sage just removed from its gallon pot to prepare it for planting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
Imbued with a heady pedigree and a peripatetic upbringing, Mr. Nichols evolved instinctively from a cosmopolitan New Yorker and world traveler to a Western writer of the purple sage.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2023
If Mom likes to walk, you can hike the 2.2-mile pathway around the reservoir together and check out the dazzling array of poppies, purple sage and artemisia that lines the California native garden.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2022
The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venters saw with a rider's keen vision ten, fifteen, twenty miles of clear purple sage.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane
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