Cakile maritima |
Cakile maritima subsp. maritima |
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European sea-rocket, sea rocket |
European sea-rocket |
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Habit | Annuals or, rarely, perennials. | |
Stems | erect to prostrate, to 8 dm. |
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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). |
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Racemes | to 4 dm; rachis straight. |
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Flowers | sepals 4–5.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals usually lavender, rarely white, 8–14 × 3–6 mm, claw distinct. |
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Fruiting pedicels | 1.5–7 mm. |
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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). |
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Seeds | cotyledons accumbent to, sometimes, incumbent or contorted. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Cakile maritima |
Cakile maritima subsp. maritima |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–fall(-winter if mild). | |
Habitat | Sandy beaches | |
Elevation | ca. 0 m (ca. 0 ft) | |
Distribution |
CA; MD; OR; WA; BC; Europe [Introduced also in Asia, n Africa, Australia]
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CA; MD; OR; WA; BC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in nw Mexico] |
Discussion | Subspecies 3 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. | FNA vol. 7, p. 425. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile | Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Cakile > Cakile maritima |
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Synonyms | Bunias cakile | |
Name authority | Scopoli: Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 2: 35. (1772) | unknown |
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