In the spring Utricularia warburgii produces 5-20 cm. flower scapes bearing 2-6 violet-blue flowers, 8mm in size and bearing a yellow splotch at the throat.
Thanks to the amazing resolution of the GOES-16 satellite, you can see one of the telltale signs of a severe thunderstorm: those little dark splotches.
They loomed startlingly above us, their splotched black and brown and red and white luminous against the blue sky, like cattle in Bonheur pictures hung high above the eye-level.
And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies. Frank cast about in his mind for some mitigating information that would make the ladies feel better.
All sorts of weeds and herbs and flowers had grown up there; splotches of wild larkspur, pale green-and-white spikes of hoarhound, plantations of wild cotton, tangles of foxtail and wild wheat.
" You look like the ragpicker's child, " he observed, his eyes taking in the mended lavender calico, streaked with perspiration and splotched here and there with water which had slopped from the basin.
This hand was rough from work, brown with sunburn, splotched with freckles. The nails were broken and irregular, there were heavy calluses on the cushions of the palm, a half-healed blister on the thumb.