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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So Venters rode on, with the wind growing sweeter to taste and smell, and the purple sage richer and the sky bluer in his sight; and the song in his ears ringing.

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane