black sage

black sage

noun
a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.

Origin:
1875–80, Americanism
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black sage

noun
an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico 
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