Cakile constricta
Sea Rocket
Cakile maritima
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- Botanical name
- Cakile maritima
- Also known as
- European Sea Rocket, Sea Rocket, Two-Head Sea Rocket
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Cakile
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Sea Rocket
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cakile maritima but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Bunias americana
Bunias ovalis
Cakile aegyptia var. australis
Cakile aegyptia var. hispanica
Cakile aegyptia var. latifolia
Cakile aegyptia var. susica
Cakile aegyptica
Cakile bauhini
Cakile hispanica
Cakile maritima f. pandataria
Cakile maritima f. pygmaea
Cakile maritima subsp. aegyptica
Cakile maritima var. aegyptica
Cakile maritima var. amblycarpa
Cakile maritima var. auriculata
Cakile maritima var. hispanica
Cakile maritima var. integrifolia
Cakile maritima var. laciniata
Cakile maritima var. monosperma
Cakile maritima var. oxycarpa
Cakile maritima var. pandataria
Cakile maritima var. pinnatifida
Cakile maritima var. sessiliflora
Cakile maritima var. sinuatifolia
Crucifera cakile
Isatis pinnata
Rapistrum cakile
Rapistrum maritimum
Others in Cakile
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