Sunflower and Musk Thistle Family
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Sunflower and Musk Thistle family is a major factor of Sunflower and Musk Thistle 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. Sunflower belongs to the family Asteraceae and Musk Thistle belongs to the family Asteraceae.
Sunflower and Musk Thistle Genus and Other Classification
While comparing scientific classification, Sunflower and Musk Thistle genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Sunflower and Musk Thistle, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Heilanthus and other plant's genus is Carduus. Sunflower tribe is Heliantheae and Musk Thistle tribe is Cynareae. Sunflower clade is Not Available and order is Asterales whereas Musk Thistle clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Asterales. Every plant have subfamilies. Sunflower subfamilies are, Helianthodeae and Musk Thistle subfamilies are Carduoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Sunflower and Musk Thistle and other products also.