| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida - monocotyledons |
| order | Asparagales Bromhead |
| family | Amaryllidaceae Jaume St.-Hil. |
| subfamily | Amaryllidoideae Burnett |
| genus | Galanthus L. - snowdrop |
| species | Galanthus elwesii Hook. f. - Greater Snowdrop |