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 | Ericales Dumortier |
| family | Primulaceae Vent. |
| subfamily | Primuloideae Kostelesky |
| genus | Primula L. - primrose |
| subgenus | Primula subgen. Primula |
| section | Primula sect. Primula |
| species | Primula veris L. - Cowslip |
| subspecies | Primula veris subsp. columnae (Ten.) Lüdi |