Species

Cakile maritima Scop.

Sea Rocket

Brassicaceae

Taxonomy

Classification

Group: Spermatophytina (Spermatophytes)
Family: Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Genus: Cakile (Searocket)

Synonyms

Cakile maritima
Bunias cakile
Cakile aegyptiaca
Cakile aegyptica
Cakile hispanica
Cakile littoralis
Cakile monosperma
Pteroneurum bipinnatum

Related species

Cakile maritima Scop. - Sea Rocket

Traits


    15–30 cm tall. flowers: light-violet. fruits: silicles or nutlets, (slightly) 2‑partite due to a transverse division, the lower segment narrow, the upper segment broader, fruit trapezoidal, 8–25 mm long, 4–6 mm broad, acute. leaves: fleshy. basal leaves: undivided to...

    You find the complete description in our identification books.

Distribution

Distribution in Europe


Cakile maritima

Legend

The colours represent the floristic status of the species in the respective region. Green indicates native occurrences, light green naturalized occurrences. Adventive occurrences are represented by light yellow shades and plants that are cultivated (but rarely occur in the wild) are dark yellow. Grey colours are used, if the floristic status of species is unknown or uncertain.


Distribution in Germany

Cakile maritima

Legend

Natural, established occurences
Artificial occurences

The color intensity reflects the species' abundance

Data: Floristische Kartierung Deutschlands (Stand 2013), Bundesamt für Naturschutz (www.floraweb.de)

Ecology

Cakile maritima

Cakile maritima

Status

  • native

Habitat

  • dunes, salt marshes

  • in nutritious, periodically flooded, occasionally saline habitats

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