Cakile maritima subsp. maritima

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 425.

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: Flowering late spring–fall(-winter if mild).
Habitat: Sandy beaches
Elevation: ca. 0 m

Distribution

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Introduced; B.C., Calif., Md., Oreg., Wash., Europe, 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.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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blunt +  and acute +
James E. Rodman +
Scopoli +
Bunias cakile +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
not rosulate +
not +  and auriculate +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
broadly ovate;lanceolate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
contorted +, incumbent +  and accumbent +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Md. +, Oreg. +, Wash. +, Europe +  and also in nw Mexico +
ca. 0 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
white;lavender +
ovate +  and oblong +
indehiscent +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.7 cm27 mm <br />0.027 m <br />) +
hastate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Sandy beaches +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
dentate +  and entire +
subentire;pinnatifid;lobed +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
8mm;14mm +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
Flowering late spring–fall(-winter if mild). +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
Fl. Carniol. ed. +
not geniculate +
stout +  and slender +
not distinguishable +
flattened +  and rounded +
mucilaginous +
uniseriate +  and aseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
oblong +  and flattened +
8-ribbed +, 4-angled +, terete +, horned +, hastate +, lanceoloid +, fusiform +, oblong +  and obovoid +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
oblong +  and ovate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
perforated +  and complete +
reduced +
terete +  and segmented +
terete +  and segmented +
Weedy +  and Introduced +
tetradynamous +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
erect +  and prostrate +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Cakile maritima subsp. maritima +
Cakile maritima +
subspecies +
conic +, mitriform +  and 4-angled +
scale-like +  and forked +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
not distinguishable +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
perennial +  and annual +
glabrous +, pubescent +  and , +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +