Taxonomy is the classification used to describe all living things. There are eight levels in the classification system: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.
This site is only going to focus on the Order, Family, Genus, and Species of flowers.
Flowers fall under the following classification:
Domain: Eukaryote
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Angiosperms or Flowering Plants.
Flowering Plants are the largest group of land plants it has 64 orders, 416 families, around 13,000 genera and over 300,000 species.
The plants that fall under this Phylum have the following characteristics: flowers, seed-producing, endosperm within the seeds, and make fruit that contain the seeds.
