Flora of North America species comparison

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Cakile lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis
Photo is of parent taxon

coastal searocket
Photo is of parent taxon

coastal searocket
Habit Plants sprawling. Plants sometimes sprawling.
Leaves

blade (ovate to lanceolate), margins usually sinuately or crenately lobed, rarely pinnatisect.

blade (ovate), margins entire or pinnatifid.
Fruits

(slenderly) lanceoloid, 19–31 mm, usually not constricted at articulation;

terminal segment at least 2 times length of proximal, apex acute to blunt, relatively long.

(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.

= 18.

Cakile lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Cakile lanceolata subsp. fusiformis
Phenology Flowering year-round. Flowering year-round.
Habitat Sandy beaches Sandy shores
Elevation ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft) ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; West Indies [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America
[BONAP county map]
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. fusiformis, C. lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
C. lanceolata subsp. lanceolata, C. lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
Synonyms C. aequalis, C. cubensis, C. maritima var. cubensis C. fusiformis, C. chapmanii
Name authority unknown (Greene) Rodman: Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 114. (1974)
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