salvia leucophylla

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   silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers

   Synonymspurple sagechaparral sage

   Broadersage

Questions about salvia leucophylla

What does salvia leucophylla mean?

salvia leucophylla means "silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers".

What is another word for salvia leucophylla?

Close synonyms include purple sage, chaparral sage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salvia leucophylla a common word?

salvia leucophylla is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.