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