The scientific classification of Purple Butterbur and Heliconia 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 Heliconia kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Purple Butterbur and Heliconia family is a major factor of Purple Butterbur and Heliconia 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 Heliconia belongs to the family Heliconiaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Purple Butterbur and Heliconia genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Purple Butterbur and Heliconia, 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 Heliconia. Purple Butterbur tribe is Senecioneae and Heliconia tribe is Not Available. Purple Butterbur clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales whereas Heliconia clade is Angiosperms, Commelinids and Monocots and order is Zingiberales. Every plant have subfamilies. Purple Butterbur subfamilies are, Not Available and Heliconia subfamilies are Not Available. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Purple Butterbur and Heliconia and other products also.