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 | Lamiales Bromhead |
| family | Oleaceae Hoffmanns & Link |
| genus | Ligustrum L. - privet |
| species | Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk. - Garden Privet |
| cultivar | Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Lemon and Lime' |