stippling

plural stipplings

1. A stippled pattern.

   There is a rich celebration of city-tough plants deliberately carried over from the days when the abandoned High Line bloomed untended with wild stipplings of red sumac, smoke bush, milkweed, echinacea and other self-seeding invaders.

   2009 August 17, Francis X. Clines, “What’s That Weird Purple Thing?”, in New York Times

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stipple