Sheep's Bit (Jasione montana)
Plants with blue or purple flowers | |
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Common Sea Lavender | Rock Sea Lavender |
Vernal Squill | Sea Holly |
Sheep's Bit | Dune Pansy |
Plants with green or brown flowers | |
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Sea Beet | Sea Spurge |
Alexanders | Sea Plantain |
Grasses | |
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Marram Grass | Lyme Grass |
Cord Grass |
Trees & Shrubs | |
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Sea Buckthorn | Creeping Willow |
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Sheep's Bit is a plant which grows in grassy areas on clifftops and can often be seen alongside Sea Pink on coastal paths during late Spring and early Summer. The rounded flower heads are a striking azure blue in colour and grow on solitary stalks from a rosette of wavy-edged leaves. It reaches a height of about 12 inches.