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coastal searocket

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coastal searocket

Habit Plants sometimes sprawling. Plants sprawling.
Leaves

blade (ovate), margins entire or pinnatifid.

blade margins deeply 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.

(slenderly) lanceoloid, 15–24 mm, constricted at articulation, (weakly 4-angled or terete);

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

2n

= 18.

Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis

Cakile lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta

Phenology Flowering year-round. Flowering year-round.
Habitat Sandy shores Coast-al strand
Elevation ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft) ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America
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from FNA
FL; TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
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Discussion

Subspecies lanceolata in Texas and Mexico are suspected to be introduced from ballast and naturalized locally, sometimes occurring with Cakile geniculata.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 426. FNA vol. 7, p. 426.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile > Cakile lanceolata Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile > Cakile lanceolata
Sibling taxa
C. lanceolata subsp. lanceolata, C. lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
C. lanceolata subsp. fusiformis, C. lanceolata subsp. lanceolata
Synonyms C. fusiformis, C. chapmanii
Name authority (Greene) Rodman: Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 114. (1974) Rodman: Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 116, plate 1. (1974)
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