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 | Boraginales Berchtold & J. Presl |
| family | Boraginaceae Juss. |
| subfamily | Cynoglossoideae Weigend |
| tribus | Rochelieae A.DC. |
| genus | Lappula Moench - stickseed |
| species | Lappula squarrosa (Retz.) Dumort. - Bur Forget-me-not |
| subspecies | Lappula squarrosa subsp. heteracantha (Ledeb.) Chater |