| Unlike any other British butterfly, speckled woods are able to hibernate as either a caterpillar or chrysalis. |
| The narrow bands of speckled scales which adorn the body and tail are also a typical keelback pattern. |
| Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges. |
| The green and white speckled ones are meant to be eaten raw, like radishes, though they taste like uncooked dough to me. |
| Pinzote, the stalk of the banana tree, was once dumped into Costa Rican rivers, but is now made into smooth, faintly speckled paper. |
| The female aments of green alder are covered by exterior bud scales, unlike speckled alder in which the aments are lacking the outer scales. |
