Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Ranunculales Dumortier |
| family | Papaveraceae Juss. |
| subfamily | Papaveroideae Eaton |
| genus | Meconopsis R. Vig. |
| species | Meconopsis barbiseta C. Y. Wu & H. Chuang ex L. H. Zhou |