Cakile edentula(Bigelow) Hook.

American searocket

WFO wfo-0000578684 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Cakile edentula, photographed by Nathan T. Jones
fig. a Nathan T. Jones, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-21 / obs. 190410065
Cakile edentula, photographed by Sean Rigney
fig. b Sean Rigney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191372737
Cakile edentula, photographed by Luke Padon
fig. c Luke Padon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189510675
Cakile edentula, photographed by John Barkla
fig. d John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180436876
Cakile edentula, photographed by John Barkla
fig. e John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184605811
Cakile edentula, photographed by John Barkla
fig. f John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182533134

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 867 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 867 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bunias edentula Bigelow
  • Cakile aegyptia var. edentula Maire & Weiller
  • Cakile aegyptica var. edentula (Loret) Maire
  • Cakile americana Nutt.
  • Cakile californica A.Heller
  • Cakile edentula subsp. californica (A.Heller) Hultén
  • Cakile edentula subsp. lacustris (Fernald) Hultén
  • Cakile edentula var. americana (Nutt.) O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile edentula var. californica Fernald
  • Cakile edentula var. edentula
  • Cakile edentula var. integrifolia O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile edentula var. millspaughii (O.E.Schulz) O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile edentula var. pinnatifida O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile harperi Small
  • Cakile lacustris (Fernald) Pobed.
  • Cakile lanceolata subsp. edentula O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile lanceolata var. apetala O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile lanceolata var. australiensis Thell.
  • Cakile lanceolata var. edentula (Bigelow) O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile lanceolata var. millspaughii O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile lanceolata var. nillspaughii O.E.Schulz
  • Cakile maritima var. americana (Nutt.) Torr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.