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Cakile maritima

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Name

Identification
Cakile maritima Scop. [family CRUCIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by P. Ascherson, 1881 Isatis aegyptiaca Forrsk. [family CRUCIFERAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Cakile euxina
  • Cakile monosperma
  • Isatis aegyptiaca
  • Aethionema orbiculatum
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  • Cakile maritima
  • Cakile chapmanii
  • Isatis pinnata
  • Bunias cakile
  • Cakile geniculata
  • Cakile constricta

Flora

Entry for Cakile maritima Scopoli subsp. maritima [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 7,
Names
Cakile maritima Scopoli subsp. maritima [family CRUCIFERAE]
Treatment Author(s)
James E. Rodman
Information
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. Fruiting pedicels 1.5–7 mm. Flowers: sepals 4–5.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals usually lavender, rarely white, 8–14 × 3–6 mm, claw distinct. 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.
Phenology
dec-feb (winter), mar-may (spring), jun-aug (summer), sep-nov (fall)
Altitude range
ca. 0 m;
Distribution
Europeintroduced also in nw Mexico.USA Calif.USA Md.USA Oreg.USA Wash.Canada B.C.
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.
Native/Introduced
introduced;

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