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

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

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

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

An' then he stared horrible at somethin' thet wasn't Lassiter, nor anyone there, nor the room, nor the branches of purple sage peepin' into the winder.

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane