The scientific classification of Mexican Heather and Leatherwood 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. Mexican Heather and Leatherwood kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Mexican Heather and Leatherwood family is a major factor of Mexican Heather and Leatherwood 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. Mexican Heather belongs to the family Lythraceae and Leatherwood belongs to the family Cyrillaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Mexican Heather and Leatherwood genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Mexican Heather and Leatherwood, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Cuphea and other plant's genus is Cyrilla. Mexican Heather tribe is Not Available and Leatherwood tribe is Not Available. Mexican Heather clade is Angiosperms, Eudicots and Rosids and order is Myrtales whereas Leatherwood clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Ericales. Every plant have subfamilies. Mexican Heather subfamilies are, Lythroideae and Leatherwood subfamilies are Not Available. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Mexican Heather and Leatherwood and other products also.