Plants : BrassicaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Cakile maritima Scop.

Sea Rocket

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Cakile maritima

Description: A fleshy plant with pale lilac flowers found commonly on sand dunes and sandy upper sea shores in suitable places all around the coast.

All names: Cakile maritima Scop.; Cakile edentula auct. non (bigelow); Cakile cakile (L.) Karst.

Distribution Map from NBN: Cakile maritima at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Cakile maritima at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Cakile maritima. Scop.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2826. Accessed on 2026-11-02.