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 | Boraginoideae Arnott |
| tribus | Lithospermeae Dumort. |
| genus | Echium Tourn. ex L. - viper's bugloss |
| species | Echium italicum L. - Italian Bugloss |
| subspecies | Echium italicum subsp. siculum (Lacaita) Greuter & Burdet |