Cakile - Wikipedia
WEBCakile is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Species in this genus are commonly known as searockets, though this name on its own is applied particularly to whatever member of the species is native or most common in the region concerned, the European searocket Cakile maritima in Europe, and the American searocket C. edentula ...
Cakile maritima - Wikipedia
WEBCakile maritima, sea rocket (Britain and Ireland) [3] or European searocket (North America), is a common plant in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It is widespread in Europe, North Africa and western Asia, especially on coastlines.
Sea rocket | Coastal, Salt-Tolerant, Edible | Britannica
WEBSea rocket, (genus Cakile), genus of about seven species of plants in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Sea rockets are native to seashore regions of North America, Eurasia, western Asia, and Australia as well as to central Arabian deserts. The plants are considered edible and have a hot pungent.
Cakile maritima (European Searocket) - World of Succulents
WEBCakile maritima is an annual succulent with branched stems and lobed green leaves, often tinted with purple or magenta. The stems can be prostrate or ascending and may reach up to 18 inches (45 cm) in length. They rise from a slender or stout taproot.
Cakile maritima Scop. - Calflora
WEBCakile maritima is an annual herb that is not native to California. [Cal-IPC] Invasiveness: Cakile maritima (European sea rocket) is a succulent annual or perennial (family Brassicaceae) found in coastal dunes spread throughout the coast of California.
Cakile maritima - University of California, Berkeley
WEBCommon Name: MUSTARD FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub; sap pungent, watery. Leaf: generally simple, alternate; generally both basal, cauline; stipules 0. Inflorescence: generally raceme, generally not bracted.
Cakile in Flora of North America - eFloras.org
WEBCakile Miller, Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4. vol. 1. 1754. Annuals or, rarely, perennials; (succulent, taproot woody, with relatively long, horizontal roots); not scapose; glabrous or, sometimes, sparsely pubescent. Stems erect, ascending, prostrate, or divaricate, branched basally.
Cakile maritima, Sea Rocket: identification, distribution, habitat
WEBThis coastal member of the mustard family is a pioneer species, colonising bare sand and shingle close to the splash zone where few other plants are able to survive. To cope with the shifting sand, Sea Rocket puts down a long taproot that branches and helps stabilise the sand.
Cakile Maritima - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
WEBCakile maritima is an annual species, and is wholly dependent on seed dispersal and recruitment for survival.
Cakile maritima - Smithsonian Institution
WEBA record of C. maritima (as Bunnia cakile), collected by John Clayton in Virginia (Gronovius 1739; Reveal 1983) refers to the native C. edentula. The first definite North American records were from ballast piles in Philadelphia collected by Martindale, 1876 (Riefner 1982b) and New York (Brown 1879).
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