Rocket of sea

The rocket of sea ( Cakile maritima ) or maritime cakilier is an annual herbaceous plant of the family of the Brassicaceae. The scientific name of the kind is borrowed from Arabic kakeleh , undoubtedly indicating the species Cakile maritima .

Description

Plant annual glabrous and green grisâtre, with stems crawling with set up according to the places where it pushes. Sheet S succulent with irregular lobes. Inflorescence in Racème carrying Fleur S lilac, pinks or white with four rather broad petals. The plant is easily recognizable with its Fruit S, Silique S in two articles whose inferior carries two points, which gives them the iron aspect of arrows.

Characteristics

  • reproductive bodies:
    • Standard of inflorescence: racème simple
    • distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
    • of pollination: entomogame, autogame
    • Period of flowering: May at October
  • seed:
    • Standard of fruit: Silique
    • Mode of dissemination: anémochore
  • Habitat and distribution:
    • standard Habitat: waste lands annual of the leashes of sea, eutrophiles, sabulicoles, Mediterranean or Atlantic
    • Surface of distribution: Mediterranean Westerner or Atlantic

Subspecies

  • Cakile maritima Scop. subsp. maritima , of the coasts of the Western Mediterranean
  • Cakile maritima Scop. subsp. integrifolia (Hornem.) Hyl. ex Greuter & Burdet, of the coasts of the Atlantic
given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

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