Weeping higan cherry
Prunus 'Snofozam' SNOW FOUNTAINS
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- 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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Weigela
Weigela florida 'Elvera' MIDNIGHT WINE
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Brigela' FRENCH LACE
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Minuet'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Olympiade' BRIANT RUBIDOR
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Pink Princess'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Rumba'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'White Knight'
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Victoria'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela subsessilis 'Canary'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Pink Poppet'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Dark Horse'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Tango'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Nana Variegata'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Courtamon' FELINE
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Bramwell' FINE WINE
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Dropmore Pink'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Verweig' MY MONET
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Courtalor' CARNAVAL
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Black Magic'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Red Prince'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Polka'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Verweig 6' SONIC BLOOM
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida 'Walweigeye' EYECATCHER
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela florida
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'April Snow'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Weigela
Weigela 'Korean Sunrise'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Western ironweed
Vernonia baldwinii
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Western mugwort
Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'
- USDA zones
- 5–10
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
Western poison oak
Toxicodendron diversilobum
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Aurea'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Cuprea'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Zebrina'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Virescens'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Hogan'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata 'Whipcord'
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Western red cedar
Thuja plicata
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Wheat grass
Elymus magellanicus 'Blue Tango'
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- 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 bergamot
Monarda clinopodia
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- 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 cypress
Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Shiva'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
White dog's-tooth violet
Erythronium albidum
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
White evening primrose
Oenothera speciosa 'Rosea'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White evening primrose
Oenothera speciosa
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to 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 forsythia
Abeliophyllum distichum
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White meadowsweet
Spiraea betulifolia
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White mugwort
Artemisia lactiflora (Guizhou Group)
- USDA zones
- 3–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
White mulberry
Morus alba 'Chaparral'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White mulberry
Morus alba 'Pendula'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White mulberry
Morus alba 'Unryu'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White mulberry
Morus alba
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White mulberry
Morus alba 'Itoguwa' NUCLEAR BLAST
- USDA zones
- 5–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- 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 sage
Artemisia ludoviciana 'Silver King'
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White sage
Artemisia ludoviciana
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White snakeroot
Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
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 wake robin
Trillium grandiflorum
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
White wake robin
Trillium flexipes
- USDA zones
- 4–7
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
White wand beardtongue
Penstemon tubaeflorus
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
White willow
Salix alba 'Tristis'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to 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
White woodland aster
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
White-tinged sedge
Carex albicans
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Whitebark magnolia
Magnolia obovata
- USDA zones
- 5–7
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Whorled milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
- USDA zones
- 4–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
Wild bergamot
Monarda 'Petite Wonder'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Wild bergamot
Monarda 'Fireball'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Wild bergamot
Monarda 'Petite Delight'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Wild bergamot
Monarda 'Petite Red Supreme'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
Wild bergamot
Monarda 'Pink Supreme'
- USDA zones
- 4–8
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
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 garlic
Allium ursinum
- USDA zones
- 5–9
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- 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
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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.
Understanding Your Hardiness Zone
The USDA hardiness zone is based on average annual minimum winter temperature. While it's an excellent starting point, also consider your local microclimate, soil conditions, rainfall patterns, and summer heat when selecting plants.