Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis |
Cakile lanceolata |
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coastal searocket |
coastal searocket |
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Habit | Plants sometimes sprawling. | Annuals, (usually sprawling). | ||||||||
Stems | erect to prostrate, (much-branched), often 5+ dm. |
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Leaves | blade (ovate), margins entire or pinnatifid. |
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Cauline leaves | (shortly petiolate or sessile); blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or (distal) oblanceolate, (not especially fleshy, smaller distally), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect. |
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Racemes | often 3+ dm; rachis straight. |
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Flowers | sepals 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair saccate basally; petals usually white, rarely lavender, 4.9–9.4 × 3–4.5 mm, claw distinct. |
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Fruiting pedicels | 1.5–4 mm. |
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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. |
(weakly 4-angled to terete, striate or sulcate), fusiform or lanceoloid [turbinate], 15–31 × 3–4 mm; proximal segment terete, (5–10 mm); terminal segment slenderly conical, (9–18 mm), apex usually acute. |
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Seeds | cotyledons accumbent or, occasionally, incumbent. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis |
Cakile lanceolata |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |||||||||
Habitat | Sandy shores | |||||||||
Elevation | ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
FL; Mexico; Central America |
FL; TX; Mexico; Central America; West Indies
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Discussion | Subspecies 4 (3 in the flora). Subspecies alacranensis is known from the Yucatán Peninsula. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 426. | FNA vol. 7, p. 426. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | C. fusiformis, C. chapmanii | Raphanus lanceolatus | ||||||||
Name authority | (Greene) Rodman: Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 114. (1974) | (Willdenow) O. E. Schulz: in I. Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 504. (1903) | ||||||||
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