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Cakile maritima subsp. maritima
Photo is of parent taxon

European sea-rocket
Habit Annuals or, rarely, perennials.
Stems

erect to prostrate, to 8 dm.
Cauline leaves

blade broadly ovate to lanceolate, (to 10 cm, smaller distally), margins sinuately lobed or deeply pinnatifid, (distal) often subentire; (lateral lobes 4–8, 5–15 mm).
Racemes

to 4 dm;

rachis straight.
Flowers

sepals 4–5.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally;

petals usually lavender, rarely white, 8–14 × 3–6 mm, claw distinct.
Fruiting pedicels

1.5–7 mm.
Fruits

(often reflexed), hastate, 12–27 × 4–8 mm;

proximal segment conical (becoming pedicel-like when aborted, with 2 opposite, lateral horns distally);

terminal segment usually 4-angled, mitriform or conic, (margins scarious basally), apex acute or blunt, (usually compressed).
Seeds

cotyledons accumbent to, sometimes, incumbent or contorted.
2n

= 18.

Cakile maritima subsp. maritima
Phenology Flowering late spring–fall(-winter if mild).
Habitat Sandy beaches
Elevation ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; MD; OR; WA; BC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in nw Mexico]
Discussion

Subspecies maritima is naturalized in Pacific North America (M. G. Barbour and J. E. Rodman 1970); it is also reported on the eastern shores of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 425.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile > Cakile maritima
Name authority unknown
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