The scientific classification of Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern 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. Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern family is a major factor of Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern 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. Chinese Dogwood belongs to the family Cornaceae and Chinese Lantern belongs to the family Malvaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Cornus and other plant's genus is Physalis. Chinese Dogwood tribe is Not Available and Chinese Lantern tribe is Physaleae. Chinese Dogwood clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Cornales whereas Chinese Lantern clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Solanales. Every plant have subfamilies. Chinese Dogwood subfamilies are, Cornoideae and Chinese Lantern subfamilies are Solanoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Chinese Dogwood and Chinese Lantern and other products also.