Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hooker. Common name: Northeastern Sea-rocket. Phenology: May-Jun (-Oct). Habitat: Beaches and lower dunes, at or near the wrack line; rarely as a railroad waif. Distribution: NL (Labrador) south to NC; also around introduced around the shores of the Great lakes and on various other shores around the world, including w. North America and Australia.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: See C. harperi for discussion of the relation between these taxa.

Synonymy ⓘ: = Pa, RAB, S, Tat, Va; = Cakile americana Nutt. — S13; = Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. ssp. edentula — GW2; = Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. ssp. edentula var. edentula — FNA7, K4, NE, Al-Shehbaz (1985b), Rodman (1974), Rollins (1993); = Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. var. edentula — C, F, G, Mi, NY. Basionym: Bunias edentula Bigelow 1814

Links to other floras: = Cakile edentula ssp. edentula var. edentula - FNA7

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Wetland Indicator Status:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
• Midwest: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
• Northcentral & Northeast: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 9