Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Sea Rocket, Cakile maritima, Cearrbhacán mara
Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Kerry

Sea Rocket
Cakile maritima
Cearrbhacán mara
Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Annual. Native.

Pale mauve or white flowers with erect sepals in elongating racemes. Fruit spindle-shaped with 2 seeds. Spreading branches with alternate fleshy leaves, pinnately lobed or entire. A bushy, hairless plant to 50cm

Grows on sand, shingle and among rocks on most Irish coasts

Related: Sea Kale, Crambe maritima. A cabbage-like plant with panicles of white flowers and large waxy-green leaves. Rare, mainly on shingle beaches in the east, south-east and south of Ireland.

Sea Rocket, Cakile maritima, Cearrbhacán mara

Sea Rocket, Cakile maritima, Cearrbhacán mara
Sea Rocket, Cakile maritima, Cearrbhacán mara

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