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 | Pinophyta Reveal - conifers |
| class | Pinopsida Burnett |
| order | Pinales Gorozh. |
| family | Cupressaceae Bartl. |
| genus | Juniperus L. - juniper |
| species | Juniperus rigida Siebold & Zucc. - Temple Juniper |
| subspecies | Juniperus rigida subsp. conferta (Parl.) Kitam. - Shore Juniper |