Position in a system
species
Melancholy Thistle
Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill
| 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 | Asterales Lindley |
| family | Asteraceae Martinov |
| subfamily | Carduoideae Sweet |
| tribus | Cardueae Cass. |
| genus | Cirsium Mill. - thistle |
| species | Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill - Melancholy Thistle |