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 | Bryophyta A. Braun - mosses |
| subdivisio | Sphagnophytina Doweld |
| class | Sphagnopsida Ochyra |
| order | Sphagnales Limpr. |
| family | Sphagnaceae Dumort. |
| genus | Sphagnum L. - sphagnum |
| species | Sphagnum carolinianum Andrus - Carolina Sphagnum |