What plant is that?

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Sheep's-bitSheep's-bit flowersSheep's-bit flower cross section
Sheep's-bit leafSheep's-bit underside of leaf

Top row l-r: Alun Williams333 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0),
kbarton, Stefan.lefnaer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

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Stefan.lefnaer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

The mystery plant for August can be an annual, biennial or perennial. It grows 3-10” tall and has sessile, hairy and alternate leaves. The flowers grow in umbels. The corolla is blue with 5 petals which soon become deeply split into fine segments.  The plant is not native, but can occasionally be seen in RI.

It’s. . .

Botanical Name:
  
Jasione montana
Common Name:
   Sheep's-bit
Family:
   Campanulaceae (Harebell family)
Habitat:
   Fields