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Cakile maritima - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Montalivet-les-Bains, Médoc, France; 6/2013 © Sonja Germer

Cakile maritima - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Salou, Tarragona, Costa Dorada, Spain; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Cakile maritima - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Montalivet-les-Bains, Médoc, France; 6/2013 © Sonja Germer

Cakile maritima - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Montalivet-les-Bains, Médoc, France; 6/2013 © Sonja Germer

Cakile maritima - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Salou, Tarragona, Costa Dorada, Spain; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Cakile maritima - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Salou, Tarragona, Costa Dorada, Spain; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Cakile maritima - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Montalivet-les-Bains, Médoc, France; 6/2013 © Sonja Germer

Cakile maritima - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Afife, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 11/2004 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 239
Date of entry: 29.12.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Sea Rocket

German: Meersenf

Portuguese: Eruca-marítima

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Capparales (35)

        Family: Brassicaceae (32)(family description)

          Genus: Cakile (1)

            Epithet: maritima Scop. (10)

maritima => growing on the seashore, confined to the coast

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: helophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

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