Salvia apiana is used for smudge sticks.

The most popular sage for smudge sticks -- in fact, the only one I'm aware of, but I'm not an expert on that aspect of it -- is white sage, Salvia apiana, which is native to coastal and inland so. Calif. and northern Baja Calif. The flowers are white. If there are purple cultivars, I've never seen them. The plant is native to my area (sw Riverside Co., Calif.), and I've grown it from both seed and cuttings. See my 2008 thread about propagating it, which also has pix of the plant in nature. Check with Las Pilitas or Tree of Life Nursery for plants. The Theodore Payne Foundation may have seeds.

Thank you so much :)

Are you interested in plants or seeds? My experience is that it's easy from seed, but it'll be a couple of years before you have plants worth harvesting. My personal opinion (not that you asked) is that the smell of living S. apiana is vile. But I sent sprigs of several Calif. salvias, including S. clevelandii, to a friend in WA, and she preferred the S. apiana. Go figure!

White sage grows native only in SoCal and isn't the easiest plant to cultivate to where it's doing well enough to harvest. Where are you located and what conditions will your S. apiana have to grow in?

White sage mixed with incense cedar and bound with sweetgrass (Hierochloe occidentalis) are what I mainly what I've seen used as smudge sticks in CA ceremonies. Sweetgrass is pretty easy to grow in containers.

ccroulet, I agree; in the garden, s. apiana stinks. It smells "sweaty" to me. KijoSiren, you might want to plant it down wind.