purple sage

American  

noun

1. a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.

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purple sage

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

There are plugs of grasses and gallon pots of white sage, purple sage, California buckwheat, long-stem buckwheat, deerweed, narrow leaf milkweed and coyote bush.

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

He does not know the wide-open spaces or the purple sage, but the narrow, closed-in spaces of saloons, and the windswept, nighttime highway can give him a similar sense of freedom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here again was a sweep of purple sage, richer than upon the higher levels.

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane