European chestnut
Castanea sativa
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
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USDA Hardiness Zone 5
-20 to -10°F • Cool winter climates
Includes sub-zones: 5a, 5b|Ideal for: cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers|5441 total plants
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What grows in USDA Zone 5?
Plants rated for Zone 5 are expected to tolerate average annual extreme winter lows in the -20 to -10°F range. This collection contains 5441 matching plant profiles, including cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers.
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European cranberrybush
Viburnum opulus 'Roseum'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
European cranberrybush
Viburnum opulus 'Nanum'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
European cranberrybush
Viburnum opulus
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
European larch
Larix decidua
- USDA zones
- 2–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
European mountain ash
Sorbus aucuparia
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
European spindletree
Euonymus europaeus
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evening primrose
Oenothera 'Innoeno131' LEMON DROP
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Evening primrose
Oenothera 'Shimmer'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Evening primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. Fremontii 'Lemon Silver'
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Everbearing raspberry
Rubus idaeus 'Kiwigold'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Everbearing strawberry
Fragaria 'Ozark Beauty'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Everbearing strawberry
Fragaria 'Tribute'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Everbearing strawberry
Fragaria EVERSWEET
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron × obtusum 'Amoenum'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Boudoir'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Cascade'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Dr. H. R. Schroeder'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Everest'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Fred D. Cochran'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Crimson'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Fuchsia'
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Hot Shot'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Rose'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Herbert'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Hershey's Red'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Hoosier Hysteria'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Karens'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Martha Hitchcock'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Moby Dick'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Mrs. Henry Schroeder'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Mrs. Nancy Dippel'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Purple Pride'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Red Red'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Renee Michelle'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Robert Hyatt'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Schroeder's Lavender Rose'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Delaware Valley White'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Concho'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Hino-crimson'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Nico'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Caroline Gable'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Glamour'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Conlee' AUTUMN AMETHYST
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Megan'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Sun Star'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Atalanta'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Elsie Lee'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Evergreen azalea
Rhododendron 'Purple Splendor'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
Fairy bells
Disporum sessile 'Variegatum'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Fairy bells
Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron'
- USDA zones
- 5–10
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Fairy bells
Disporum flavens
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Fairy bells
Disporum lutescens
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
False aster
Boltonia asteroides var. Latisquama 'Snowbank'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
False aster
Boltonia asteroides 'Pink Beauty'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
False aster
Boltonia asteroides
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
False bugbane
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
False chamomile
Boltonia asteroides var. Latisquama 'Masbolimket' JIM CROCKETT
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
False garlic
Nothoscordum bivalve
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False gromwell
Onosmodium molle
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False hydrangea
Deinanthe bifida
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
False hydrangea
Deinanthe caerulea
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
False Indian plantain
Hasteola suaveolens
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
False indigo
Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Chocolate Chip'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia × variicolor 'Twilite' TWILITE PRAIRIEBLUES
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Lemon Meringue'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Amorpha fruticosa
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to wet
False indigo
Baptisia bracteata
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Dutch Chocolate'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Lunar Eclipse'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Pink Lemonade' DECADENCE DELUXE
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False indigo
Baptisia 'Ivory Towers'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
False lily of the valley
Maianthemum bifolium
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
False mitrewort
Tiarella 'Tiger Stripe'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
False rue anemone
Enemion biternatum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
False Solomon's seal
Maianthemum racemosum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
False Solomon's seal
Maianthemum stellatum
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Part shade
- Water
- Medium
False spiraea
Sorbaria grandiflora
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
False spiraea
Sorbaria sorbifolia
- USDA zones
- 2–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
False spiraea
Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Sem'
- USDA zones
- 2–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
False sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides 'Prairie Sunset'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
False yucca
Hesperaloe parviflora (yellow form)
- USDA zones
- 5–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Fan columbine
Aquilegia flabellata var. Pumila
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Fan columbine
Aquilegia flabellata var. Pumila 'Silver Edge'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Fan columbine
Aquilegia flabellata var. Pumila 'Alba'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Fanleaf violet
Viola 'Dancing Geisha'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Feather celosia
Celosia argentea (Plumosa Group) 'New Look'
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Feather celosia
Celosia argentea (Plumosa Group) 'Sylphid'
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Feather reed grass
Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to wet
Feather reed grass
Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Overdam'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Feather reed grass
Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Avalanche'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to wet
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare 'Smokey'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Fern-leaf yarrow
Achillea filipendulina 'Gold Plate'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Fern-leaf yarrow
Achillea filipendulina 'Parker's Variety'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Fern-leaf yarrow
Achillea filipendulina 'Gold Coin Dwarf'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Fern-leaf yarrow
Achillea filipendulina
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
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USDA Hardiness Zone 5 experiences winter minimum temperatures between-20 to -10°F. This collection includes 5441 plants specifically suited for Zone 5 conditions, including cold-hardy perennials, evergreens, conifers.
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