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 | Salicaceae Mirbel |
| tribus | Saliceae Rchb. |
| genus | Populus L. - Cottonwood |
| species | Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A. Gray ex Hook. - Western Balsam-poplar |