DCHP-1 Online
sage bush 
a bluish-gray shrubby plant of the genus Artemisia, as A. tridentata, of the arid regions of the West.
See also: sage
- 1872 (1873) The cattle had eaten off all the bunch-grass within three or four miles of the road, and a poor substitute for it chiefly in the shape of a bluish weed or shrub called "sage grass" or "sage bush" had taken its place.
- 1908 Another nest taken under the same conditions along Frenchman's River, Province of Saskatchewan, on 21st June, was built of the outer bark of sage bush. . . .
- 1872 (1873) The cattle had eaten off all the bunch-grass within three or four miles of the road, and a poor substitute for it chiefly in the shape of a bluish weed or shrub called "sage grass" or "sage bush" had taken its place.