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 | Taxaceae S. F. Gray |
| genus | Taxus L. - yew |
| species | Taxus canadensis Marsh. - Canadian Yew |