Ipomoea nil ‘Tie Dye’ (Morning glory)

Natural morning glories are North American natives, but this cultivar is not found in the wild.

Plants: These perennial vines reach 12′ (3.7 m) in length. Stems have fuzzy hairs.

Flowers: Trumpet-shaped, pink, purple, or blue, up to 6″ (15 cm) around, with uneven colored stripes radiating from the center.

9/7/2010 · New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts · ≈ 14 × 9″ (35 × 23 cm)

9/7/2010 · New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 20 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Solanales	Potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, tobacco, petunias, sweet potatoes, morning glories, many others
Family	Convolvulaceae	Bindweed or morning glory family
Genus	Ipomoea	From Greek ips, “a worm,” and homoios, “like,” because of the twining vine
Species	nil	Possibly referring to the Nile? I have also read that it is an Arabic name for a species of morning glory