Seasonal Wild Flowers

Sea Rocket

Cakile maritima

Brassicaceae

June to September

It is found all round the coast.

See the BSBI distribution map for Sea Rocket

It is found on the winter drift line where nutrients

accumulate, sandy beaches and dunes close to

the beach.

Sea Rocket is a native, straggly and bushy, annual herb,

growing up to 50cm.

Flowers are 4-merous, ranging from lilac to white, and

up to 2cm.

There are 6 stamens and a small capitate stigma.

The leaves are greyish, fleshy and pinnately lobed.

Pods are bulbous and in 2 segments.

Sea Rocket has a long, anchoring tap root.

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Sea Rocket, Heysham, Lancashire

At the top of the beach

Managing the sand

Flowers with anthers

Flowers with stigmas

Sea Rocket pods

Fleshy, lobed leaves

Winter drift line, Heysham