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Plants for USDA Zone 4

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62 matches for Zone 4

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Orange pumpkins maturing on broad vines in a sunny vegetable garden

Vegetables

Pumpkin

Cucurbita maxima

Grow Pumpkins by choosing the fruit job first, giving vines real ground, keeping water steady through fruit fill, and curing…

Warm-season annual in Zones 3-10
Mature red maple standing alone on a suburban lawn with its whole rounded crown turned brilliant scarlet in autumn, smooth gray trunk below and fallen red leaves on the grass

Trees

Red Maple

Acer rubrum

Red Maple is one of the quickest ways to grow a broad native shade canopy, especially on moisture-holding soil.

USDA Zones 3-9
Mature rhododendron shrub with pink flower trusses and broad evergreen leaves in a mulched woodland bed

Shrubs

Rhododendron

Rhododendron spp.

Rhododendron is a broadleaf flowering shrub grown for spring trusses and glossy leaves, but its care starts below the show.

Zones 4 to 9
Multi-stem River Birch with several leaning trunks in salmon and tan peeling bark, standing in a mown lawn beside a pond edge with a mulch ring at its base

Trees

River Birch

Betula nigra

River Birch (Betula nigra) is the birch that survives heat, humidity, and heavy wet clay, and its peeling salmon bark is the…

USDA Zones 4–9
Rose plant in bloom in a garden setting

Flowers

Rose

Rosa spp.

Garden roses range from compact landscape shrubs to climbers, hybrid teas, old garden roses, and container types.

Varies widely, commonly Zones 3-10 by cultivar
Multi-stem Serviceberry covered in small white star-shaped flowers at a woodland edge, with bluebells and low green perennials in the mulched bed at its base

Trees

Serviceberry

Amelanchier spp.

Serviceberry (Amelanchier) is a small rose-family tree that gives white flowers in very early spring, edible purple fruit in…

USDA Zones 4–9
Purple-leaved smoke tree in a mixed border with its whole crown veiled in airy pink feathery plumes, backlit by low afternoon sun, with lawn to the left and coneflowers to the right

Trees

Smoke Tree

Cotinus coggygria

Smoke Tree (Cotinus coggygria) gets its name from thousands of hair-covered flower stalks that blur into a pink haze above dark…

USDA Zones 4-8
Mounded spirea shrub covered with pink flower clusters in a sunny mixed border

Shrubs

Spirea

Spiraea spp.

Spirea is a deciduous flowering shrub grown for spring or summer color, fine leaves, and easy border massing.

Usually Zones 4 to 9
Yellow squash blossoms and developing squash fruit on broad garden vines

Vegetables

Squash

Cucurbita spp.

Grow Squash by deciding whether you want tender summer fruit or mature winter storage fruit, then matching space, pollination…

Warm-season annual, USDA Zones 3-10
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