Guttatus
/gut-AH-tus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: guttata, guttatum
A color and marking epithet describing a plant surface marked with small spots or dots — like drops of color scattered over a paler ground. Related to maculatus (blotched) but implying smaller, more regular, drop-like markings. Appears as guttatus (masculine), guttata (feminine), or guttatum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin guttatus, meaning "spotted" or "drop-marked," from gutta (a drop).
Example
“Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower) and Erythronium guttatum both have the characteristic small, regular spots on their petals — precisely the drop-like markings the epithet describes.”