The scientific classification of Gardenia and Sotol 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. Gardenia and Sotol kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Gardenia and Sotol family is a major factor of Gardenia and Sotol 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. Gardenia belongs to the family Rubiaceae and Sotol belongs to the family Liliaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Gardenia and Sotol genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Gardenia and Sotol, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Gardenia and other plant's genus is Dasylirion. Gardenia tribe is Gardenieae and Sotol tribe is Not Available. Gardenia clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Gentianales whereas Sotol clade is Monocots and order is Liliales. Every plant have subfamilies. Gardenia subfamilies are, Ixoroideae and Sotol subfamilies are Nolinoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Gardenia and Sotol and other products also.