The scientific classification of Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye includes the entire classification chart that includes kingdom, family, clade, tribe etc. A kingdom is the second highest taxonomic rank. A taxonomic rank is the level that a living organisms are placed in hierarchical level of arrangement of life forms. All the living organisms are divided into kingdoms. Plant kingdom is a main classification of living organisms that include all plants. There are six kingdoms which are: Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Aschaea/Archaeabacteria and Bacteria Eubacteria. Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye family is a major factor of Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye Scientific Classification. Plant family helps you narrow the search of your plants. It also gives you idea about, how the plant looks, how the seed will be like etc. These two plant families can be different or same. Cardinal Flower belongs to the family Lobeliaceae and California Buckeye belongs to the family Sapindaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Lobelia and other plant's genus is Aesculus. Cardinal Flower tribe is Not Available and California Buckeye tribe is Not Available. Cardinal Flower clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales whereas California Buckeye clade is Angiosperms, Eudicots and Rosids and order is Sapindales. Every plant have subfamilies. Cardinal Flower subfamilies are, Lobelioideae and California Buckeye subfamilies are Hippocastanoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Cardinal Flower and California Buckeye and other products also.