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 | Liliopsida Batsch - monocotyledons |
| order | Liliales Perleb |
| family | Liliaceae Juss. - lily family |
| subfamily | Lilioideae Eaton |
| genus | Tulipa L. - Tulip |
| subgenus | Tulipa subgen. Orithyia (D.Don) Baker |
| species | Tulipa heterophylla (Regel) Baker |