The scientific classification of Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood 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. Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood family is a major factor of Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood 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. Purple Butterbur belongs to the family Asteraceae and Dawn Redwood belongs to the family Cupressaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Petasites and other plant's genus is Metasequoia. Purple Butterbur tribe is Senecioneae and Dawn Redwood tribe is Not Available. Purple Butterbur clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales whereas Dawn Redwood clade is Not Available and order is Pinales. Every plant have subfamilies. Purple Butterbur subfamilies are, Not Available and Dawn Redwood subfamilies are Sequoioideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Purple Butterbur and Dawn Redwood and other products also.