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 | Malpighiales Martius |
| family | Hypericaceae Juss. |
| genus | Hypericum Tourn. ex L. - St. Johnswort |
| section | Hypericum sect. Androsaemum (Duhamel) Godron |
| species | Hypericum hircinum L. - Stinking Tutsan |
| subspecies | Hypericum hircinum subsp. metroi (Maire & Sauvage) Sauvage |