It was first described as Digitalis lutea subsp. cedretorum in 1936 by the French botanist Louis Emberger.[1] Another French botanist, René Maire, raised it to an independent species four years later, 1940.[2] It was first collected in a cedar woodland on a granite-derived substrate, at 2,500 metres in altitude in the eastern Atlas Mountains, north of a town called Masker.[5]