CALIFORNIA WHITE SAGE beautiful high-resolution closeup professional pictures photos pics images jpeg, part of the KUMEYAAY.INFO Indigenous Peoples of California Plant and Herb gallery museum online.
CALIFORNIA SAGE PICTURES
Common name: White Sage / California Sage / Buffalo Sage
Scientific name: Salvia Apiana
Spanish name: Salvia
Kumeyaay name: Pellytaay / Pestaay
This beautiful high-resolution professional photograph of a wild, natural-growing California Sage flower top -- aka ceremonial white sage, BUFFALO SAGE -- was photographed by Gary G. Ballard in 2007 in high desert San Diego mountains near Julian and Alpine, Calif.
The spectacular wild indigenous plant picture is cropped tight on the sage leaves.
Traditional California Indians, including the Kumeyaay, consider the White Sage plant sacred and have burned the leaves in their ceremonies for untold generations...this burning process is known as smudging.
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