Cakile edentula (Bigel.) Hook. | |||
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Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
Synonyms | Cakile californica Heller., Bunias edentula subsp. califernica (Heller) Hult. | ||
Common name | sea rocket | ||
Description | Glabrous, fleshy, branched from base; branches decumbent; leaves sinuate-den- tate; pedicels stout; petals pink; silicles ribbed, flattened at apex, the lower joint obovmd the upper ovoid. | ||
Ecology | Sandy beaches. C. edentula described from coast of Canada and Great Lakes, subsp. californica from Monterey, California. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. edéntula. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.