Sweet William
Dianthus barbatus
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
5
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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Sweet William silene
Silene armeria
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Sweet-amber
Hypericum androsaemum
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Sweet-scented columbine
Aquilegia fragrans
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Sweetscented bedstraw
Galium odoratum
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Swiss chard
Beta vulgaris (Leaf Beet Group) 'Bright Lights'
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Swiss chard
Beta vulgaris (Leaf Beet Group)
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Swiss stone pine
Pinus cembra 'Chalet'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Swiss stone pine
Pinus cembra 'Glauca'
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Swiss stone pine
Pinus cembra
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Cloud Nine'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Sky'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Rehbraun'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Rotstrahlbusch'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Squaw'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Northwind'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum 'Prairie Fire'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum 'Huron Solstice'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'RR1' RUBY RIBBONS
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Badlands'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Cheyenne Sky'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum 'Dust Devil'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Switch grass
Panicum virgatum
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Sycamore maple
Acer pseudoplatanus f. Variegatum 'Simon-Louis Freres'
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Sycamore maple
Acer pseudoplatanus
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Midnight Fragrance'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Sable Night'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Beverly Sills'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Champagne Elegance'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'City Lights'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Eagles Flight'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Immortality'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'America's Cup'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Wild West Wind'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Dutch Chocolate'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Whispering Spirits'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Florentina'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded iris
Iris 'Flavescens'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Northward Ho'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'October'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'St. Petersburg'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Autumn Tryst'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Buckwheat'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Clarence'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Happy New Year'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Winterland'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Jennifer Rebecca'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bearded reblooming iris
Iris 'Pagan Goddess'
- USDA zones
- 3–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall bellflower
Campanula americana
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea PROSCAPE WINNING COLORS
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea (mix)
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea 'Dense Shade Mix'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea 'Jaguar 3'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea 'Kentucky 31'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea 'Black Beauty'
- USDA zones
- 3–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tall fescue
Festuca 'Cool as Ice'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry
Tall larkspur
Delphinium exaltatum
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tall thoroughwort
Eupatorium altissimum
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tamarisk
Tamarix ramosissima 'Pink Cascade'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tamarisk
Tamarix ramosissima
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tansy
Tanacetum macrophyllum
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tapering glade fern
Deparia pycnosora
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tartarian aster
Aster tataricus
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tassel fern
Polystichum polyblepharum
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Tassell hyacinth
Muscari comosum 'Plumosum'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tasteless stonecrop
Sedum sexangulare
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tat soi
Brassica rapa var. Rosularis
- USDA zones
- 2–11
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian aster
Aster tataricus 'Jindai'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Argenteomarginata'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Gouchaultii'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Bailhalo' IVORY HALO
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Sibirica'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Kesselringii'
- USDA zones
- 2–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Siberian Pearls'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Spaethii'
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Regnzam' RED GNOME
- USDA zones
- 3–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian dogwood
Cornus alba 'Byboughen' NEON BURST
- USDA zones
- 2–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian honeysuckle
Lonicera tatarica 'Alba'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian honeysuckle
Lonicera tatarica
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tatarian maple
Acer tataricum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to dry
Tatting fern
Athyrium filix-femina 'Frizelliae'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Tazetta daffodil
Narcissus 'Minnow'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tazetta daffodil
Narcissus 'Martinette'
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tazetta daffodil
Narcissus 'Golden Dawn'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tea viburnum
Viburnum setigerum
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tennessee coneflower
Echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Tennessee coneflower
Echinacea tennesseensis
- USDA zones
- 5–6
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Rose'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Respighi'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Rose'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Ruffles Elegante'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Arabian Magic'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Champagne Royale'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Cherry Berry'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Tetraploid daylily
Hemerocallis 'Crown Royal'
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- 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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