The scientific classification of Cardinal Flower and Citrus 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 Citrus kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Cardinal Flower and Citrus family is a major factor of Cardinal Flower and Citrus 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 Citrus belongs to the family Rutaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Cardinal Flower and Citrus genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Cardinal Flower and Citrus, 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 Citrus. Cardinal Flower tribe is Not Available and Citrus tribe is Citreae. Cardinal Flower clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales whereas Citrus clade is Angiosperms, Eudicots and Rosids and order is Sapindales. Every plant have subfamilies. Cardinal Flower subfamilies are, Lobelioideae and Citrus subfamilies are Asteroideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Cardinal Flower and Citrus and other products also.