Common 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. Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals 4, generally free; petals (0)4, forming a cross, generally white or yellow to purple; stamens generally 6 (2 or 4), 4 long, 2 short (3 pairs of unequal length); ovary 1, superior, generally 2-chambered with septum connecting 2 parietal placentas; style 1, stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit: capsule, generally 2-valved, "silique" (length >= 3 × width) or "silicle" (length < 3 × width), dehiscent by 2 valves or indehiscent, cylindric or flat parallel or perpendicular to septum, segmented or not. Seed: 1--many, in 1 or 2 rows per chamber, winged or wingless; embryo strongly curved. Genera In Family: +- 330 genera, 3780 species: worldwide, especially temperate. Note: Highest diversity in Mediterranean area, mountains of southwestern Asia, adjacent central Asia, western North America; some Brassica species are oil or vegetable crops; Arabidopsis thaliana used in experimental molecular biology; many species are ornamentals, weeds. Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desvaux in cultivation only. Aubrieta occasional waif in central NCoR, Carrichtera annua (L.) DC. in SCo, Iberis sempervirens L., Iberis umbellata L. in PR, Teesdalia coronopifolia (Bergeret) Thell., Teesdalia nudicaulis (L.) W.T. Aiton in southern NCoRO, CCo. Cardaria, Coronopus moved to Lepidium; Caulostramina to Hesperidanthus; Guillenia to Caulanthus; Heterodraba to Athysanus; California taxa of Lesquerella to Physaria; Malcolmia africana to Strigosella. eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: SEA ROCKET Habit: Annual (perennial herb), fleshy, many-branched, glabrous. Stem: erect or decumbent. Leaf: fleshy, cauline, petioled or not, base not lobed. Inflorescence: terminal, elongating. Flower: sepal base not sac-like; petals white to lavender (0). Fruit: silique or silicle, fleshy, in age corky, indehiscent, segmented, segments 2, transversely jointed, each generally 1-seeded; stigma entire or +- 2-lobed. Seed: oblong. Species In Genus: 7 species: shores, eastern North America, Europe, northern Africa. Etymology: (Arabic name) eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Reference: [Rodman 1974 Contr Gray Herb 205:3--146]
Cakile maritima Scop.
NATURALIZED Stem: prostrate or mound-forming to erect, <= 8 dm. Leaf: cauline, broadly ovate to lanceolate, petioled. Flower: sepals 4--5.5 mm; petals 8--14 mm. Fruit: 1.2--2.7 cm; terminal segment conic, generally 4-sided, tip acute to blunt; pedicel 1.5--7 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=18. Ecology: Beach dunes; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo, CCo, SCo, ChI; Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, eastern North America, Mexico; native to Europe. Flowering Time: May--Nov Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Reference: [Rodman 1974 Contr Gray Herb 205:3--146] Jepson Online Interchange Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Cakile edentula Next taxon: Camelina
Citation for this treatment: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz 2012, Cakile maritima, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=16531, accessed on August 24, 2019.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2019, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on August 24, 2019.
Geographic subdivisions for Cakile maritima:
NCo, CCo, SCo, ChI
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