Flora of North America species comparison

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Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis
Photo is of parent taxon

coastal searocket
Habit Plants sometimes sprawling.
Leaves

blade (ovate), margins entire or pinnatifid.
Fruits

(oval in cross-section) fusiform, 16–25 mm, not constricted at articulation, (4- or 8-sulcate or striate);

terminal segment less than 2 times length of proximal, apex tapering abruptly, acute.
2n

= 18.

Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis
Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Sandy shores
Elevation ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 426.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile > Cakile lanceolata
Sibling taxa
C. lanceolata subsp. lanceolata, C. lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
Synonyms C. fusiformis, C. chapmanii
Name authority (Greene) Rodman: Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 114. (1974)
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