sagebrush

noun

sage·brush ˈsāj-ˌbrəsh

: any of several North American hoary composite subshrubs (genus Artemisia)

especially : one (A. tridentata) having a bitter juice and an odor resembling sage and often covering vast tracts of alkaline plains in the western U.S.

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Most of the plants growing at the nursery will be planted on the structure next year: native shrubs such as white sage, California fuchsia, California buckwheat, sagebrush, purple sage, black sage, toyon and laurel sumac, along with a variety of native grasses. —

Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024 Some major players are California sagebrush (Artemisia californica), black sage (Salvia mellifera), white sage (Salvia apiana), and California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum). —

Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024 Imagine the best of California and Colorado wine countries combined into a single dreamscape of lakeside vineyards and orchards, with rolling foothills covered in sagebrush and pine set against a backdrop of arid mountain peaks. —

Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024 The complex was beset by scrubby clay slopes dotted with sagebrush, California aster, evergreen oaks. —

Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sagebrush