Marina Dunes Preserve

Scientific name:

Cakile maritmia

Family: Mustard Family

Blooms: May - Nov

Plant Height: < 80 cm

Habitat: Beaches

About: This is a common sight on beaches along the entire Pacific coast. It is more or less prostrate, with decumbent to erect stems and fleshy, pinnately-lobed leaves. Pink to lavender flowers are in more or less terminal clusters. The fruits (“rockets”) are distinctive, dry and light with two conspicuous “horns” at the joint. The fruits can survive for some days in the water as they float their way to another beach.

*For more information about the family of flowers please click here!