Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Aztec Priestess'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
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USDA Hardiness Zone 3
-40 to -30°F • Extremely cold winter climates
Includes sub-zones: 3a, 3b|Ideal for: cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers|1850 total plants
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Plants rated for Zone 3 are expected to tolerate average annual extreme winter lows in the -40 to -30°F range. This collection contains 1850 matching plant profiles, including cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers.
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Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Bob Barker'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Baby Lamb'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Spacecoast Tiny Perfection'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Tiger Time'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Cinnamon Pleasure'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Doug's Red Mercedes'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetrapoild daylily
Hemerocallis 'Golden Tear Drops'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Thalictrum
Thalictrum pubescens
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Thimbleberry
Rubus parviflorus
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Thimbleweed
Anemone virginiana
- USDA zones
- 2–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Threadleaf coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata 'Grandiflora'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Threadleaf coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Threadleaf coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Threadleaf coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tickseed
Coreopsis rosea 'American Dream'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tickseed
Coreopsis rosea
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tickseed
Coreopsis tripteris
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Toadflax
Linaria maroccana
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Toothache tree
Zanthoxylum americanum
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Triandrus daffodil
Narcissus 'Thalia'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Bravoure'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Brer Fox'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Dutch Master'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Gin and Lime'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'King Alfred'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Mount Hood'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Spellbinder'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Carrickbeg'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Pops Legacy'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Lugano'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'General Patton'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Aunt Betty'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Trumpet daffodil
Narcissus 'Little Gem'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tufted hair grass
Deschampsia cespitosa 'Pixie Fountain'
- USDA zones
- 2–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tulip
Tulipa (group)
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Turkscap lily
Lilium martagon
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Turnip
Brassica rapa (Rapifera Group)
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Turtlehead
Chelone obliqua 'Rosea'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Tussock sedge
Carex stricta
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Two-grooved milkvetch
Astragalus bisulcatus
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Variegated kiwi vine
Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic Beauty'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Verbena
Verbena hastata f. Rosea 'Pink Spires'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to wet
Virginia bluebells
Mertensia virginica
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia var. Engelmannii
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia 'Monham' STAR SHOWERS
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia 'Troki' RED WALL
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Washington hawthorn
Crataegus phaenopyrum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Water arum
Calla palustris
- USDA zones
- 2–6
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Water avens
Geum rivale
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Wax gourd
Benincasa hispida
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White ash
Fraxinus americana 'Autumn Purple'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White ash
Fraxinus americana 'Rosehill'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White ash
Fraxinus americana
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White baneberry
Actaea pachypoda
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
White basswood
Tilia americana var. Heterophylla
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White clover
Trifolium repens
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White dog's-tooth violet
Erythronium albidum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
White false indigo
Baptisia alba var. Macrophylla
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
White fir
Abies concolor
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White mugwort
Artemisia lactiflora (Guizhou Group)
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White oak
Quercus alba
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White poplar
Populus alba
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White prairie clover
Dalea candida
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White snakeroot
Ageratina altissima
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Cecilia'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Conica'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Densata'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Echiniformis'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Sander's Blue'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca JEAN'S DILLY
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca 'Pendula'
- USDA zones
- 2–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White spruce
Picea glauca
- USDA zones
- 2–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White stonecrop
Sedum album 'Coral Carpet'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White stonecrop
Sedum album subsp. Teretifolium 'Murale'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White stonecrop
Sedum album
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White turtlehead
Chelone glabra
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
White willow
Salix alba
- USDA zones
- 2–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
White wood aster
Eurybia divaricata 'Eastern Star'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
White wood aster
Eurybia divaricata
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
White wood aster
Eurybia divaricata 'Tiney Hiney'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild cranesbill
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Variegatum'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild geranium
Geranium maculatum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Wild geranium
Geranium maculatum f. Albiflorum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Wild indigo
Baptisia tinctoria
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild plum
Prunus americana
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild sweet William
Phlox divaricata 'Fuller's White'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Wild sweet William
Phlox maculata 'Natascha'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Wild sweet William
Phlox divaricata subsp. Laphamii 'Chattahoochee'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild sweet William
Phlox divaricata
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Wild sweet William
Phlox divaricata subsp. Laphamii
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Willow bell
Campanula persicifolia
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Windflower
Anemone canadensis
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Winter aconite
Eranthis hyemalis
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Winter squash
Cucurbita moschata
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Winter squash
Cucurbita maxima
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
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USDA Hardiness Zone 3 experiences winter minimum temperatures between-40 to -30°F. This collection includes 1850 plants specifically suited for Zone 3 conditions, including cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers.
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