Classifying living organisms is an important task. The most known method of classifying living things was created by Carolus Linnaeus. He introduced a hierarchy that classified living organisms from broadest to most specific. The hierarchy made by Carolus Linnaeus consists of several classifications: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. The following were ordered from the broadest classification, to the most specific classification.
But there may be other classifications, probably not so known as the one of Linnaeus. The following chart shows one of the many classifications plants may have. This was found in a document/activity of Helen Saayman.
Saayman, Hellen. "To classify plants according to their characteristics." Connexions. The Connexions Project, 11 Mar 2010. Web. 11 Aug 2010. <http://cnx.org/content/m20135/latest/>.
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