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|accepted_name=Cakile edentula
|accepted_authority=(Bigelow) Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 59. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bunias edentula
|authority=Bigelow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Boston.,
|publication_place=157. 1814
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae;Cakile;Cakile edentula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cakile]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cakile edentula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 425, 428
|treatment_page=page 427
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or, rarely, perennials, (compact, rarely sprawling). <b>Stems</b> erect, or, rarely, prostrate, (much-branched), to 8 dm. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: blade ovate to spatulate, or (distal) oblanceolate (less lobed), (smaller distally), margins crenate, dentate, or sinuate (not pinnatifid). <b>Racemes</b> 1–2 dm, (congested); rachis straight. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels 1.8–8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white to pale lavender, (well-developed or reduced to bristles), 4.6–9.7 × 1.5–3 mm, claw not distinct. <b>Fruits</b> (4-angled or 8-ribbed), cylindrical, 12–29 × 3–9 mm; proximal segment terete, (5–10 mm); terminal segment fusiform to turbinate, (7–15 mm), (beak flattened), apex acute, blunt, or retuse. <b>Seeds</b>: cotyledons accumbent to, sometimes, incumbent.</span><!--

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|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;introduced in e Asia (Japan);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Elements of <i>Cakile edentula</i> are native in North America; the typical variety is introduced on the Pacific Coast and probably on beaches of the Great Lakes Region.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits 4-angled, terminal segment apex usually acute or blunt, rarely retuse.
|[[Cakile edentula subsp. edentula|Cakile edentula subsp. edentula]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits 8-ribbed, terminal segment apex blunt or retuse.
|[[Cakile edentula subsp. harperi|Cakile edentula subsp. harperi]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cakile edentula
|authority=(Bigelow) Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bunias edentula
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;introduced in e Asia (Japan);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1830
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
|genus=Cakile
|species=Cakile edentula
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