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 | Linaceae S. F. Gray |
| subfamily | Linoideae (DC. ex Gray) Arn. |
| genus | Hesperolinon (A. Gray) Small - dwarf-flax |
| species | Hesperolinon breweri (Gray) Small - Brewer's Dwarf-flax |