Cakile lanceolata

Coastal Searocket

Brassicaceae (mustard family)

Plant Specifics

Form:	Flower
Size:	2 ft tall by 2 ft wide
Life Span:	Short-lived perennial
Flower Color:	White,lavender
Fruit Color:	Yellow
Phenology:	Evergreen. Blooms spring through summer.
Noted for:	Hurricane wind resistance

Landscaping

Recommended Uses:	Searocket is best used to hold loose sand in place such as the beach dune system.
Propagation:	The searocket produces pods shaped like a rocket with two seeds, one in the top, which drops off and is carried away by wind or water, and the bottom with remains with the plant.
Availability:	Specialty providers
Light:	Full Sun,  Part Shade
Moisture Tolerance:	always floodedextremely dry
	(Short very dry periods ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods)
Moisture Tolerance:	Short very dry periods ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:	Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.
Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance:	High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt spray without injury.
Soil or other substrate:	Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil pH:

Ecology

Wildlife:
Insects:	Attracts butterflies and bees. Larval host for the great southern white(Ascia monuste phileta).
Native Habitats:	Coastal dunes. Identified along the Indian River lagoon and the Atlantic shoreline to the Gulf and across to the panhandle of Florida.

Distribution and Planting Zones

Comments

General Comments:

Pronuciation : Ca-ki-le lan-see-oh-lay-tuh The searocket blooms July through September. Annual to short-lived perennial.