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

Instead of lawn or little potted palms around the pool, there are oversize stands of desperado sage, a fragrant hybrid between white sage and purple sage, growing so untamed they’re nearly spilling into the pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

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

The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The racecourse lay at the foot of the slope, and now the gray and purple sage was dotted with more horses and Indians, more moving things and colors, than Bostil had ever seen there before.

From Wildfire by Grey, Zane