The scientific classification of Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat 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. Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat family is a major factor of Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat 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. Southern Wood Fern belongs to the family Dryopteridaceae and Mexican Hat belongs to the family Asteraceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Dryopteris and other plant's genus is Ratibida. Southern Wood Fern tribe is Not Available and Mexican Hat tribe is Not Available. Southern Wood Fern clade is Not Available and order is Polypodiales whereas Mexican Hat clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales. Every plant have subfamilies. Southern Wood Fern subfamilies are, Not Available and Mexican Hat subfamilies are Not Available. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Southern Wood Fern and Mexican Hat and other products also.