Cakile Mill.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cakile Mill.

• Description

  Description - Annual glabrous fleshy herbs, with purplish or white flowers. Siliques elongated, sessile, flattened or ridged, indehiscent, 2-jointed, the joints 1-celled and usually 1-seeded. Style none; cotyledons accumbent. [Old Arabic name.] A genus of about 3 species, natives of sea and lake shores of Europe and North America. Type species: Bunias Cakile L.