The scientific classification of Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus 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. Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus family is a major factor of Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus 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 Peruvian Apple Cactus belongs to the family Cactaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus, 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 Cereus. Sunflower tribe is Heliantheae and Peruvian Apple Cactus tribe is Cereeae. Sunflower clade is Not Available and order is Asterales whereas Peruvian Apple Cactus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllidae. Every plant have subfamilies. Sunflower subfamilies are, Helianthodeae and Peruvian Apple Cactus subfamilies are Cactoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Sunflower and Peruvian Apple Cactus and other products also.